Word: quipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rare is the author who makes an accurate appraisal of personal work, even by accident, but then Novelist Keyes is something of a phenomenon. The happy quip in the publishing world is that she learned to type on a cash register, that hardly anybody can match her at striking the $3 key. With her last ten novels (including The River Road, Came a Cavalier, Dinner at Antoine's), Novelist Keyes has rung up sales of more than 5,000,000 copies, and with her latest she is going to play again the kind of fiscal jingle bells that publishers...
...players under him. It is this quality, in addition to his unquestionably fine musicianship, that produces the results Holmes gets from non-professional musicians. He believes very strongly that the best way to get amateur musicians to work together is to make them enjoy it--"by cracking the quip, if necessary." And his humor technique can be modified into a Knute Rockno pep talk when necessary. Two years ago, he read a somehow dispirited group of Bandsmen a Cornell Band press clipping, in which the last line read "The Harvard Band is also expected to appear." As usual, Holmes' team...
...love story involves the hero with-of all people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...
...this industry has been a long-time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time in coming but director Richard Whorf, known to some as a Shakespearean actor, has allowed the direction to get out of hand. There are too many irrelevancies and not enough of the quip situations in which Mr. Colman can handle himself best. The picture should have run an hour and it ran for two hours and 18 minutes...
...humor consists of two types. The sublimely lunatic Harpo wields the slapstick. He, as a personification of the Id, drops ice out of windows, cuts holes in floors, scatters passports to the wind, chases pretty girls, and gleefully slugs people he doesn't particularly like. Groucho handles the leering quip with illimitable finesse: ". . . some days I never got to bed at all--in those days a college widow stood for something." Chico, an underrated artist, is a good straight man and a master of the pun: "there ain't no Sanity Clause." Zeppo tries hard, but he's only along...