Word: naturedness
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The story is of a miserable, middle-class marriage in the process of breaking up. It is told in long scenes of indecent emotional exposure involving middle-aged businessmen, silly, frustrated wives, a good-natured call girl and a footloose young male hustler. All of them are compelled to pretend...
?EXISTENTIAL SLAPSTICK. This genre seems to mix Mack Sennett and Samuel Beckett. A woman, responding to the call "Where's the Open Pit?", dashes across the lawn with a bottle of Open Pit barbecue sauce and disappears into an open pit. A baker, having carelessly forgotten his Vicks Cough...
Sir: What an abysmally dirty trick you played on Hubert Humphrey by putting that ugly and utterly nontypical picture of him on your cover! The text portrays his real, essential characteristics of buoyancy, optimism, kindness, idealism, sunny nature; while in the cover picture he appears cynical, suspicious, pessimistic, ill-natured...
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). A British version of Dr. Knock, French Dramatist Jules Remains' good-natured spoof of the medical profession, which has be come a modern French classic.
Goldby lets the pace stall at moments to let the dialogue sink in, as if Orton had some comment to make on life, instead of mocking all comment on life or death. Orton was a promising young English playwright (Entertaining Mr. Sloane) who was murdered by his friend (Kenneth Halliwell...