Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allan Sherman decided early that he had to laugh. His father was an automobile mechanic and inventor who belted down bourbon by the glassful and disappeared when Allan was six. His mother was a fun-loving flapper who had four husbands and bought books with jackets to harmonize with her draperies. Sherman grew up in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. After 21 public schools and the University of Illinois, he packed up a suitcase full of his songs, settled down in New York for seven lean years as a starving television gagwriter. Then...
...consolation prize is Menasha Skulnik, a totally endearing imp of 70. His face is a relief map of mischief and melancholy, and there is a laugh hidden in every crease. The stage may be stationary-Skulnik never is. Visions of sour pickles and gefilte fish seem to dance in his head...
Anything Handy. Offstage, Ghiaurov behaves like a kind of Bulgarian Jackie Gleason, mugging, joking, erupting into great rumbling gales of ho-ho-ho laugh ter. At parties, given a few drinks, he will invariably perform on any instrument that is handy - flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with...
Outwardly, there is little to distinguish Lady Jackson from any other chic Englishwoman with a disarming smile. She punctuates her conversation with "jolly," "bloody," and an ever-ready laugh, yet speaks in a torrent of determination when the subjects nearest to her are brought...
Mayer, no doubt, has read the appropriate criticism (and his clowns laugh as if they understand their quibbles). But, perhaps in an effort to give the play more life, or to make it more intelligible, he has adopted a slightly oversimplified interpretation...