Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibilities of light perhaps more fully than any director alive. And he uses sound-and silence-with the skill and sensitivity of a composer. With subtle verve and dazzling control, he can alternate dreamy love with Gothic horror or wonderfully bawdy hilarity. He is equally at home with Wildean wit and low Shakespearean vaudeville. Like a gadfly, Bergman buzzes about his favorite target: the normal, healthy, inadequate male. ("Grown men are so rare," one of his women says sweetly to her husband, "that we pick the child who suits...
...uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor. "Howell got his job," observed a Democratic wit, "only because he delivered the temperance vote to Andrews...
...pursuing sex for pleasure. The Good Soup begins to flag in constantly pursuing it for pay. For the light touch to win out over the spotted truth, Marie-Paule's career needs more amusing variety, or she herself needs a sense of humor, or Playwright Marceau a livelier wit. Yet, in addition to piquant staging and bright performances, notably by Actress Gordon and Mildred Natwick, The Good Soup has its own kind of interest of succeeding with the ice rather than the champagne, and shows character for preferring a measure of flatness to falsity...
...ferocious lioness. At another, bedded with a banging hangover, she suddenly gets a mad glint in her eye, yanks the lid off her ice bag, dumps the cubes into a highball, gulps it down, grins wickedly. These and a dozen other bits of business are brought off with delicious wit and a berserk precision of gesture that only Bea Lillie among living comediennes can match. Like Lillie, Kay Kendall was not really so much a comedienne as a clown, and her last picture should leave no doubt in anybody's mind that she was a clown with a touch...
...these matters as well as in good wine, roses and birds (he owns 100 parakeets). Thin, balding and scholarly looking, he is as inconspicuous as one of his own characters. But his work closely resembles that of another British expert in horror, Saki, particularly in casual bloodthirstiness and ghoulish wit, and he very nearly equals Saki in fiendish invention. His one complaint: "People miss the humor in my stories because they're so intent on being made to squirm...