Word: byplay
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...made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned the borough's vocal displeasure, he began his visits to U.S. military hospitals with the question: "Anybody here from Brooklyn?" If any of the patients assented, Coward replied: "I'm Noel Coward. Go ahead." When Lyons reported this byplay, its edge was blunted: "I'm Noel Coward. Anybody here from Brooklyn...
...LIFE comics in Measure for Measure come from Shakespeare's second drawer. Since the play is as smutty a text as he ever penned, director Kahn has helped the low-comedy scenes along with a considerable amount of bawdy byplay--such as the masturbatory caressing of a staff, the tossing about of a large rubber phallus, the snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better...
Meanwhile the councillors continue to speak of Corcoran's incompetence, Peterson's lack of qualifications, and Johnson's lack of vision. But such maneuvering in the Manager dispute appears to be no more than symptomatic byplay of a more serious deeper illness in Cambridge city government. As Councillor Danehy said. 'There have been divisions before on the best course for the city to follow, but never to the point where the Council could...
...relate the oppressive destiny of this house would be somewhat misleading, for the drama is saturated with fascinating Oedipal byplay and lit throughout with sudden match flares of humor. Saved would not be a matter of theatrical moment except that Edward Bond possesses a genuine dramatic imagination and the makings of a formidable playwright. His best dialogue is equal to Pinter's, and he can match Beckett when it comes to peering into the abyss of existence. While not as fine a playwright as either, he has something that the two greater dramatists lack: a keen sense...
...kinds of theater, the elitist and the vulgarian. In Aristophanic comedies, male characters were endowed with huge prop phalli with which they thwacked each other. Early forms of the Kabuki theater were closed down by the shogun in 17th century Japan for encouraging prostitution and inciting lewd homosexual byplay on and off stage. Italy's commedia dell'arte was frequently obscene in word and gesture...