Word: mirth
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...nigger" and won't sit at the kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...
During the 13th century, King Alfonso the Wise produced the first illustrated history of Spain. The rare book showed that just as art may serve as magic, nature's mirror or man's mirth, it is also a priceless visual testament to the past. Seeing history in art fascinates Photographer Bradley Smith, who spent two years in Spain taking pictures of more than 235 art works, from the 20,000 B.C. cave paintings of Altamira to the present-day works of Miró and Picasso...
Unhappily, Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) sells his mirth-right for a mess of footage. Broadway's Forum was a head-spinning comedy of erotic errors in which three men and two women paired off in most of the possible permutations. A direct director could have reduced complexity to clarity; but Director Lester, with his scatty continuity and wham-bam camerantics, has about the same effect on this picture as a dachshund puppy might have on a game of chess...
...have wine and women, mirth and laughter...
CACTUS FLOWER. If love is a delicate blossom in the desert of life, the French may claim to be the most happy of horticulturists. This romantic comedy, expertly transplanted from the banks of the Seine by Abe Burrows, cleverly tramples the grapes of mirth...