Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pertinent to point out that "City Lights" is not the funniest movie that has ever been filmed, although it has been publicized as such. Several of Chaplin's other pictures contain routines much more humorous. The attraction in "City Lights" is not laughter alone, but a warm balance of comedy and poignancy that only Chaplin can create. The final scene between the Tramp and the Flower-girl, tenderly played by Virginia Cherrill, is a strikingly beautiful example of that balance...
...dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...
While the audience screamed with laughter, six simpering oldsters pranced onstage in ballet costume; a blindfolded man, expecting to kiss a pretty girl, kissed a cow instead; an unwary young woman sat-just for an instant-on an electrically charged chair...
...What makes her one of the pleasantest poetasters around, and Nineteen Million Elephants one of the year's happier books of light verse, is the wise, warm humor of an occasional poem. Some of them are bookish little pieces, with a humor as quiet and decorous as low laughter in a library. Example...
...South Korean "vassals." When that speech was over, Tsiang asked, with Confucian irony: "Now that the president of the Security Council has had the benefit of the wisdom of the representative of the Soviet Union, he should be in a position to give that ruling." The chamber echoed with laughter. Malik still stalled...