Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit. While Wilson bogged down in circumlocutions, Carey reached dizzying heights of oratorical excess. After one rendition of Happy Days, he told his audience: "I hate to stop the music, but if you want to hear the harmony of this team being in symphonic rapture ..." He broke off to laugh at his own hyperbole...
...Rhoda. James Brooks turned to his fellow writer-producers, Allan Burns, David Davis and Lorenzo Mu sic. "Why open with the fruit salad?" he asked, blue-penciling the menu. "Let's get to the zinger - we move the pastrami up, segue to the coleslaw, go for the laugh with the knockwurst...
Ronald's wife Marion (Geraldine Page) mouths snobbish insults, knocks back the gin and flirts with a swinging architect, Geoffrey (Tony Roberts), whose wife Eva (Sandy Dennis) moves through the room like a zombie's zombie. The truly running gag of the act -and it is more laugh provoking than it sounds-is the spectacle of Jane dashing in and out of a drenching rain in quest of a six-pack of tonic water...
...prose is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's, but it lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the same way, the novel's structure evolves into a complex web out of an increasing sense of urgency. Slocum's failure to reach his children comes, he feels, not from his own virtual breakdown but from the breakdown in American values. Children, he feels, have a right to be pessimistic...
...action on stage directly to the audience, thus warning them not to expect any pretense of realism. In the Seale version, all of the Microbe's lines have been cut except his last one, which has been given to a new character dressed as GBS himself. It gets a laugh, but, taken by itself, it doesn't do much more...