Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face of the diners. But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy do we find a bit of solid ground. Obsence protests are continually undercut by a laugh, despair by a ray of happy contentedness; even the ferocious prophecies of the impending consummation of decay give off a strange feeling of hopeful...
Actors Stanley and Redford pump fresh air into Krasna's saggy script, especially its laugh-shy first act. But they cannot camouflage the fact that this type of play has long been outgrown by just about everyone whose first love was not a box office...
Hiss: Brendan Gill of the New Yorker says: "The girl wants the young man to marry her, so she can start having a family... Philippe de Broca stops at nothing in the way of gags and tricks to make us laugh...
...Texan of today by quoting British Journalist George Warrington Steevens' summary of the turn-of-the-century American: "He may make his mind easy about his country. It is a credit to him, and he is a credit to it. You may differ from him, you may laugh at him; but neither of these is the predominant emotion he inspires. Even while you differ or laugh, he is essentially the man with whom you are always wanting to shake hands...
Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway's Carnival! yields nothing to its Hollywood model Lili in poignance and charm-and there is always the grande dame of musicals, My Fair Lady...