Word: comical
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...
...widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years...
...with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...
...have nothing against the use of comedy in Faustus; for all I know, many of the comic scenes were written by Marlowe himself. But, they could be used discriminately so as to bear some relation to the dramatic undercurrent, which is, for whatever else one may add, a theme of sin, torture, and hell, coupled with the secular joys which lie along the path to hell...
...looks terrible," says a West Berliner of Anna. "Typically East." This one comic, ironic touch may do more to unnerve the audience's conscience than the final close-up of two dead hands which almost meet. But perhaps the Berliners have been through enough to take their "frontier between you and your child" dialogue straight...