Word: comically
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...child's baseball cap in bright blue and a particularly loud sweater. The movie does no better with comedy than with romance--scenes that are not maudlin tend to be pathetic. There is a pronounced effort to make the cast look as unappealing as possible, presumably to add a comic touch and to scoff convention. "Who does your wardrobe, Quasimodo?" Jason asks Phoebe in one of his lucid moments...
Trevor has not missed the comic side of the sexual revolution. Lovers of Their Time finds a travel-agency clerk and a shop girl meeting daily in an unused hall bathroom of a commercial hotel. It is an ample facility where the couple picnic, frolic in the tub and plan their future before catching the train home: she to her mother, he to a randy wife. Tristram and Isolde as commuters in a tiled cave of love is an entertaining conception. Trevor does more; he dignifies the lovers with a deep understanding of their passions and the mundane force that...
...material, astutely unfolds most of its human little story in revealing little scenes. It is the more touching, too, for not being cheaply sentimental. It portrays unfortunate young people who are also, quite plainly, fiberless; it balances what is pathetic in the mother's situation with what is comic in her character...
...center of all this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television and won a bright new feather for his very old hat. In a space of eight months, Berle's Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) has made him the undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven...
...summer is a time of hard-boiled stocktaking, half-baked promises and raw replacements. The most promising and engaging personality on the summer replacement circuit is Johnny Carson, 29-year-old comic of CBS's The Johnny Carson Show (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.D.T.). With a droll sense of humor, Carson never raises his voice, but has an effective way of raising an eyebrow, and he combines a slow double-take with a quick smile. Given good material, he could be irresistibly funny...