Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, Actress Geraldine Chaplin brings very little to her television role of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in normal life." But Chaplin has little sympathy for Lily, who ignores love in favor of a convenient marriage and who snuffs herself out with chloral after her reputation is compromised. Says Chaplin, who for 13 years has lived uncompromisingly with Spanish Director Carlos Saura: "I like playing her. I wouldn...
Surely, I thought, there was plenty of mirth in this sacred land across the Charles River. But then I thought about football, and the humor of the situation quickly escaped me. There was, in fact, nothing funny at all about B.U., Harvard or anything connected with the two--so long as football is involved...
Father's Day. Maybe the title should be Divorcee's Day. Three highly articulate women (Tammy Grimes, Susan Tyrrell, Mary Beth Hurt) who have been ditched by their husbands indulge in distinctly inflammatory remarks about the male as s.o.b. Alternating between poignance and dipsy mirth, this drama takes a 20/20 look at divorce, U.S. style...
Indeed, "Observer" is an island of mirth in one of the world's most authoritative?and dullest?newspapers. "He adds humor to the Times, "says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's executive editor...
...edge of the bush I felt an emotional barrier: no humans wanted. The kookaburras cackled derisively, and I inagined how the original settlers must have felt on first hearing that dismembered sound, coming out of the forest like a deranged banshee, a whole ancient continent helpless with mirth at the efforts of these stiff European turkeys to bend it to their will...