Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAUGH (308 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
...Hara let it be known that his next work was to be something really massive, surpassing even such weighty tomes as Ten North Frederick in length but embodying the crisp authority he seems lately to have lost in the piling up of documentary detail. But plainly, The Big Laugh is not it. For a mercy, it is shorter. For a pity, it is perhaps O'Hara's worst book. In its account of Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s, trifles are sharply observed, but the whole picture is bleared and unfocused...
Jules and Jim. Two young men and a girl love, laugh and write poetry in Paris 50 years ago, in a film that is a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination, as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...
...stands for something. It is pro mammal. It is pro burlesque. It is pro the golden corn of vaudeville, flawlessly husked by Zero Mostel, David Burns, Jack Gilford and John Carradine. What Forum brings back to Broadway is good for high, low, middle, and knitted brows-the belly laugh...
Reid had finely polished the President's accents and gestures over three jobless months last fall, and once on stage, he brought down the house with his very first line; few had ever seen the President laugh so hard. His "serious mattahs" and "in my views" were unmistakably Kennedy, and his "we must move ahead" sounded like the call to federal service. Reid had his Kennedy deliver a playful jab or two at British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was also present: "He has covahed such a wide range of topics and made so many things cleah, including several...