Word: clever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" accomplishes what most House plays set out to do--it entertains without becoming pretentious, giving both the cast and the crowd a good time. Capable actors and clever jokes abound in this production, and only the long line for tickets should keep one from catching a performance...
...reinforced with projected slides of Renaissance perspective drawings of depth and space. This staging may demonstrate how much can be done with so little, but it appears to be of no other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what he has done in productions such as King Lear, and too many techniques remain unexplained...
Despite imbalance in the structure, Common Knowledge is a clever representation of campus life. It is sure to appeal to a student audience which is able to laugh at itself and at it friends. But an exlusive theme hovers over the stage a theme that is hard to put down on paper and into the mouths of the characters. Politics is much more than burning down buildings, candlelight marches and a platform of lofty ideals. It is accommodating ideals to reality by communicating them to colleagues and to voters something which the beleaguer Steve is unable...
...Epps evidently felt that it did not follow the guidelines closely enough, but I felt was clever and harmless," student conductor Ryan Reetz '84 said...
...first issue of TIME included a section that was called Imaginary Interviews, in which celebrities of the day, like Margot Asquith or Princess Yolanda of Italy, were made to provide clever explanations of why they were in the news that week. By 1926, this not entirely successful experiment had acquired the rubric People, but it was only in 1927 that the People section began reporting what real people really said and did. "Names make news, " the section announced, "and last week the following people made the following news. "Herewith a sampler from the 56 years since then...