Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buster Keaton Position...
...took up Yoga only a year ago, and who is "Of course not!" a Zen Buddhist, explained the exercises with a faint Boston accent. One pose, with the left arm stretched forward and the right hand holding the right foot behind the back, Moynahan described as "the Buster Keaton position...
...People following greed are funny,' says Kramer. "It's the best basis for a big chase." Maybe. But the great screen comedians-Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon Fields-lightened their essays on human folly with the inspired lunacy that makes art. Kramer offers the harshly realistic image of greed itself, and simply tops it off with wisecracks. His cast cannot match the physical style of Mack Sennett, and Mad World's substitute for wit is the flaccid humor of insult. In dozens of roadside hassles, Ethel Merman as Berle's nerve-shattering mother-in-law begins almost every...
...Buster Keaton, utterly wasted in one brief sequence, might have told Director Kramer a thing or two about the shrewd use of slapstick to coax belly laughs from an episode that has three comedians tearing down a garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy...
...Suitor is a sight-gag souffle-tasty, fluffy and French. Screenwriter, director and star, all in one, is diminutive Pierre Etaix, who manages to combine the wobbly wistfulness of Chaplin, the deadpan pantomiming of Buster Keaton, and the jumping-jack gymnastics of Harold Lloyd...