Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
Those who were a little slow catching the jokes of the cantatas' German libretto have their chance for the first laugh by recognizing a stirring processional as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." The two Beatle cantatas were both arranged by Joshua Rivkin; one became famous on the Elektra album "The Baroque Beatles Book," and the other premiered -- minus staging -- at Lincoln Center this summer. The second is a great piece of doggerel from "A Spaniard in the Works" in which Thomas Weber, as detective Shamrock Wombls, solves "The Singularge Experience of Miss Ann Duffield" and explains, "Harry Belafonte, my dear...
...biggest laugh of the week came when 1 read that "Americans spend only 8% of their after-tax income for food" Nov. 4]. I spend 29%, and this is done only by buying day-old bread, not eat-ng any of the better cuts of meat, and 5uying only the "come-on" items at the market. No meat over 89? per pound has graced our table since the price increases 'his year. We use powdered milk for cooking and all the short cuts that...
...worth arguing. The script, based on Howard Fast's pseudonymous potboiler about a light-fingered socialite, soon degenerates into a droll call of ancient wheezes that add up to a 97-minute heh. The actors (Natalie Wood, Dick Shawn, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Lila Kedrova) try hard to laugh it up, but most of the time they look the way the audience feels: like geese stuffed with chestnuts...
Director Tim Hunter has given Forum plenty of sight-gags and a Burlesque flavor, the two prerequisites for getting boffs. But you laugh hardest when the pace is fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When...