Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strong material, then; and Rezzori follows this family labyrinth back with a fine disdain for sentiment, a transparency of feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist's) book. But it is intensely moving and contains, in its winding and ironic cadences, not a slack sentence: a performance in a difficult key about the making of a near extinct kind of European...
...unanswerable questions of children are treated with dignity and humor in Does God Have a Big Toe? (Harper & Row; $14.95). Marc Gellman, a rabbi, patiently retells Bible stories from a youthful view: Noah said to his friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...
Despite these faults, last weekend's performance could not completely destroy Gilbert and Sullivan's lyrics and music. Gilbert's quick-witted criticisms of the arbitrary English caste system--as well as some of the slapstick humor added by director Matt Buchanan--made the audience laugh...
...limited in stage time or are confined by secondary roles, but Kevin Kain as Peter, the Mister Rogers clone who must listen to Jerry's ramblings, and Elijah Siegler as John Brown, the man who insists on treating a hospital as a hotel, manage to infuse their roles with humor and dignity...
...think mixing the humor with the sadness is agood idea," said Amory...