Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prologue-mono logue about the inverse relation between the Smothers' fortunes and Richard Nixon's. His uncertain promise that they were going to be good boys and stay away from politics raised hopes that wickedness might win out and they would at least tell a Jerry Ford joke or something. No such luck- just a succession of laughless sketches, totally lacking any link with an identifiable aspect of life as it is lived by anyone, any where. Redd Foxx came off worst among the guest stars in a distasteful bit about mixed marriage. The Smotherses...
...novel in which he misinterprets the situations of some of his friends, other Blanford characters. These convolutions lead to the expectable mild ironies of viewpoint, but the plot is too sketchily developed to constitute the novel's reason for being. It seems rather to be a private joke at which Durrell, smiling at his own writerish tics, then smiles at himself smiling at himself...
...According to a Depression joke, what did you get with each share of Goldman Sachs and Company stock...
...assume they can take care of themselves. Lumet seems to have concentrated on keeping the dialogue sparse, and the characterization quick and neat. The result is like a museum restoration with a very serious curator but subject matter laughably warped out of shape. Is Finney's accent a joke? Why does Wendy Hiller look like a nonagenarian who's aged fifty years since The Lady Vanished...
...Horowitz did not have time to joke now, and he quickly gave the graduate students some last-minute instructions on how to shut off the helium supply and checked out. He turned in his radiation counter--he hadn't absorbed much today--and was ushered out the back door by a security guard, a reminder of the classified work that goes on in the labs, an old radar-research center from World...