Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build up enough pressure to get a laugh, humorists have begun to abandon sex to take up the grave topic of death, as in The Loved One, proudly promoted as a picture "with something to offend everyone." Yet audiences have generally proved shockproof to spoofs on death and destruction; they do not laugh because they understand, and says Playwright...
...America knew were simply comedians who happened to be Jews, few of whom would risk their inside Yiddish humor on a general audience. But as the funnymen limbered and loosened up on late-night TV, they began to use Jewish words, phrases and jokes, many of which made Bloomington laugh as hard as The Bronx. Jewish humor has penetrated strongly into print as well. How to Be a Jewish Mother became a big seller, bought by a lot of readers who were neither Jewish nor mothers. Still, beyond the simple shoulder-shrugging caricatures and the throwaway Yiddish, the Jewish experience...
...Heller, the change to basic black was not made basically for laughs. "I am not using humor as a goal, but as a means to a goal," he says. "The ultimate effect is not frivolity but bitter pessimism." As Critic Leslie Fiedler sees it: "Black humor fits anyone worth reading today. It's the only valid contemporary work." Nonetheless, the strongest critics of blackness are found among humorists, many of whom believe that humor that does not make people laugh is not humor at all. Some of the critics, however, confuse black humor with sick humor, whose chief practitioner...
That their work is both difficult and serious have taught Rom and Both not to take themselves seriously. "You discover what you need anywhere is to be content," Beth said. "It takes time, but you learn to communicate. When you learn to laugh at the same things as the people here ... then you are home...
...their double-breasted suits. Even in as recent a film as The Yellow Rolls-Royce, one of the breakup scenes was the appearance of George C. Scott as a 1930s hood, all decked out in a rakish, broad-brimmed white Panama and a Raft-shouldered, double-breasted suit. But laugh softly and take a long second look. For the newest male mode is nothing less than a reissue of Hollywood's dependable old Double...