Word: whimseys
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...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
Misalliance, a bright union of acid dialogue and fanciful plot, serves as a scrap-book for assorted bits of Shavian philosophy. Skimming over anything profound, the play is an agreeable jumble of Shaw's acumen and nonsense. By exaggerating speech and gestures, the Broadway version has heightened the whimsey and strengthened the plot...
...Updike and Henry S. Zeigler offer the only contrast to the poor quality of the other writing. Zeigler's verse has spark, both in "Tour de Force" and in a shorter piece about some unidentified "little round men." Updike's "Footnotes to the Future" is a bit of delicate whimsey, and "This Isn't a Chain I'm Smoking" is delightful--especially in comparison with the rest of the issue. Updike's versification and phraseology are light and refreshing: "Milady I like your diminutive lips. . . .I like your wee fingers and miniscule hips. . . ." Unfortunately his style here only accentuates...
Quite aware of the potential of the locale and its personalities, Swanson has chosen a piece of ironical whimsey for his script. A wiry youth with the agility of a Douglas Fairbanks and the garb of a Broadway bopster steals a 40 pound donation from the coffers of the local church. After a Keystone cops chase he hides the money under a pumpkin soon to be found by a woman who needs cash urgently to feed her hungry children. When the thief shrewdly steals the money back, the whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible...
...Irish joke has been around for a long time, and The Quiet Man clings safely to its durable components: temper, thirst, and whimsey. But two hours and ten minutes of wry smiles and roguish glances, even from masters Ward Bond and Barry Fitzgerald, are pretty wearing...