Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Odets wanders is in his straining for gags and an over-reliance on Skulnik's complete mastery of inflection and gesture. Strangely, the play's main strength, a warm and jovial view of Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into...
...jovial President Eisenhower last week sliced into a 3-ft. birthday cake modeled after the White House (with a putting green on the roof) and said he was happy to be 64. Explained Ike to a Denver birthday-luncheon: "Considering the year I was born, if I weren't 64 I'd be dead...
...brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped Wilson, returned early to carouse with friends. "You've got a fast horse and a long loop, sheriff," said Tom Holland...
...Jolly Farmer. For eight months before his death, Wilson had off & on dealings with Tom Holland, a 6 ft., 200 lb. farmer from Beryl, a hamlet 150 miles to the northwest. Holland, who is as jovial as Wilson was bellicose, came to Kanab in a house trailer, with some vague agreement to work on Wilson's claims. The partners fought, made up, fought again. One day last week Holland and Wilson were observed in town, apparently in a rare mood of good fellowship. They set off to inspect new claims, returned that night, and made plans to meet...
Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...