Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging playwrights. At a pseudo-lyric funeral, a group mourns...
...dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked long and hard on certain aspects of the dissection of a fetal pig"), but overall the joke is strained. In the story, Brackley carves up his girl's face, but she becomes a model. Grotesque? Yes ("Camillia emerged from...
...real show began we were so nervous we were glad at the arrival of 250 new minds to cope with. The audience was one of us. But alas, we were cut off from them by a barrier of Meanies wielding "Applaud" signs and using and clapping to make them laugh. The only way the audience could get its licks in was by responding to something, we initiated...
Another student said, "Last week's issue was just something to laugh at. The articles were garbage, even if it was in good taste." One female student publicly burned six copies...
Ryman's pictures are so unsettling, in fact, that some who see them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...