Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the translator says. One of the visitors speaks up. "If we had asked that question in America, she would have said she wanted to grow up and get married." The answer is translated and it has an odd effect. Instantly the somber expressions of the girls vanish; they laugh among themselves...
...best to keep your month shut during intermission because the critical comment you make is bound to offend the person who sewed the gold buttons on such-and-such's jacket. But as a courtesy to those new to the production these initiates might try to applaud and laugh it up more convincingly. When you laugh alone the Loeb can be lonely...
...play progresses. The stay of the show is Ken Demsky as Acaste, the foppish rival for Celimene's hand. Kathy Clinton, who does a good overall job of direction, has wisely ignored Richard Wilbur's advice in his play Acaste as blatantly epicene. His waving handkerchief, stacatto monkey laugh, and feigned expression are the comic highlight of the evening...
...York City hospital goes on. The story evades numerous intriguing issues: Rigg has a potentially interesting madman for a father. He causes chaos in this wonderland of technological medicine, but he assures us that in Mexico, where he lives almost as a hermit, he gets on very well. Cynical laugh from the sophisticated audience, end of joke...
...What is universal about Flip Wilson is not his humor but his blackness. He does not transcend blackness, he just works in it. Whoever you are and whatever your race, when he makes you laugh, it's because he is showing you something that you instinctively have and are instinctively keeping alive-that touch of blackness that forces you to triumph over a world that insults...