Word: funnier
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...Wright Morris' lesser and funnier novels, Love Among the Cannibals, some American tourists are marooned in the boiled-water area of Mexico when their great, gaudy auto breaks down. The natives do not bother them, but each morning there is less of the ridiculous vehicle left. The door han dles and the four wheels go first; a day later the sparkplugs, carburetor and windshield; finally the engine block, dashboard and radiator...
...repartee flows smoothly but in sipidly. Still, the play might have been salvaged by a better actor than Barry Foster in the crucial role of Julian. Foster moves unsurely, his face fixed in a permanent mischievous grin. A really good pantomimist could have made this part both funnier and more convincing...
...laughs, not snickers. By pruning the script of prurience, Wilder and Diamond have managed to treat the sale of sex with vulgar good humor. Irma has no moral, of course; yet as an essay on virtue v. venery, it is as uplifting as a graduation address-and ten times funnier...
...second period the game got louder and funnier. After Yale had failed to score with a two-man advantage, Bill Lamarche drilled in his own rebound at the five minute mark to make it 5-2 Harvard. But with both Godfrey Wood and the Crimson defense napping Steve Gunther got the goal back for Yale...
...social purposes; and he's exploited the way any other piece of merchandise is." All terribly crass, but something else bugged Brando even more: "As soon as you become an actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astrology, archaeology and birth control. And what's even funnier, you start giving opinions...