Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrait and others, the countess was an incurable cocotte. But she was a likable one, and also never let guilt or bitterness interfere with gaiety. In London, she wrote, she was able to look at it all and laugh sufficiently to "dampen her dress." She died at 35, having fallen from a third-story window during a carouse. Or was she pushed by French revolutionary agents? The book leaves that question, and most others, tantalizingly open...
Facts of Life (H-L-P; United Artists) suggests that if the commercial comedians would only stop trying so hard to make people laugh, some of them might be funny. In this picture Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, sometime major magnates of the TV laugh industry, set out to make a quiet little country-club comedy-partly for the mass audience, but partly also for their own pleasure in reading good material again after all those years in the yak pastures. To their considerable amazement, they have produced the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-a quick, slick, slyly satirical...
...aged suburbanites-one male (Hope), one female (Ball), each happily married to somebody else-who have known and mildly disliked each other for years. Then, accidentally, they find themselves in Acapulco for a two-week vacation, alone together and falling in love. They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch...
...murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia of the German race...
After a hastily called conference of Lampoon editors, they released the following official statement: "It has always been our purpose to laugh with people--not at them. Had we realised that we were inadvertently slurring the name of a hard-working, child-and-horse-loving actor of Mr. Mineo's caliber, it would have been completely beyond the range of possibility for us to have given him this award. As for the confusion between the Lampoon and the CRIMSON, it is quite understandable since the two words sound identical when repeated quickly...