Word: tragicomedian
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...Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce-Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked him as a superb tragicomedian who manufactured social slapstick from the hypocrisies of Italian...
...farewell last week to nearly five years of five-nights-a-week stands: "1 think all of us have a great obligation to him." Similar tributes came from such other previous $320-a-shot guests as Dick Nixon, Jack Benny and Billy Graham. But as ever, teary-eyed Tragicomedian Paar prevailed, reveling in his last self-apologia (about Castro. "I was wrong in many areas") and final vestigial vendetta (was Dorothy Kilgallen headed for India "to fight a mongoose...
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