Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tragedy often has a more powerful effect, but tragedy and comedy are very close of course. True tragedy and true comedy are almost indivisible--tears and laughter are terribly close to one another. I think one arrives at comedy later than tragedy. For instance, young actors always find tragedy much easier. It's always easier to immerse oneself emotionally in something; it's much more difficult to have a view. And comedy requires a kind of view of life, I think. The most important plays are the comic rather than the tragic ones. From Aristophanes onward the great commentators...
Shrieking Laughter. In the Bundestag building in Bonn, mobs of frenzied women raced through the corridors cutting off the neckties of male deputies in a symbolic castration proclaiming the traditional theme of "the day women rule." Similar scenes occurred in other government and business offices all over Bonn. In Beuel, a working-class suburb of the capital, women stormed the town hall, using a borrowed circus elephant to drive a wedge through the crowds...
...bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...
...heard hearty laughter and loud, chicha-induced talk coming from the deep recess of the bottom floor of this two-story house...
SOMETIMES AT THE Loeb Ex you get the feeling that all the pretense and profundity is gathering like rainclouds and that if one person in the audience giggled, the entire place, actors and all, would explode in laughter. A friend of mine who hates Ingmar Bergman says the same thing would be true of his films if the audience couldn't blame the stiffness of the dialogue on the subtitles. So a stage production of Persona, Bergman's 1966 film about the attempt of one woman, Elisabeth, to impose her identity upon another, Alma, starts out with two strikes against...