Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Author Dennis offers is less often humor than lunatic good humor, and the reader is blown by a pleasant breeze of cheerful idiocy throughout most of the book. Probably inevitably, a calm is reached toward the end, when Mame doing her old turns in outlandish new costumes no longer seems very funny. Particularly in a long, unnecessarily moralistic chapter on Mame among the anti-Semites, Around the World begins to sound like The Long Voyage Home...
...printed page, one of Shakespeare's weakest comic passages; and, on the stage, it usually proves to be an embarrassing interlude. For the first time in my experience, thanks to Frederic Warriner's Launcelot and Stanley Jay's Gobbo, the scene came out satisfactorily. Warriner, in an outlandish patch-work costume, turns the clown into a merry stutterer; and Jay sports an over-sized pointed nose and few teeth. Their combined antics are hilarious...
...songs. I have been Homer's eyes. I suggested Mephistopheles. They say--with some salt to be sure--that I pinched Beatrice and Dante merely followed her flight to comfort. I am the Muse, the Artist, or if you will, the Human Venture. You may think my costume outlandish and my demeanor strange; but that is your fault, not mine. I have endured...
Harold J. Kennedy and Albert Penn have provided sure-handed direction on a suitably run-down set by Stuart Whyte. And someone deserves a program credit for Miss Bartley's outlandish costumes...
...idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crewcut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely. Until he arrived at the university he was educated in mediocre public schools, the whole of life to him lies in doddling...