Word: clever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show fares equally well when you break the "fun" down into its component parts. Stephen Sondheim provides at least seven super songs with highly humble melodies and clever, memorable lyrics that had the audience singing to itself in the intermission. The cast energizes the stage with strong, coordinated, full-company numbers and includes several very good individual performances...
With the wisdom of hindsight, particularly now that the deadline for deployment is near, the alliance's decision in 1979 to pursue simultaneously disarmament and rearmament looks too clever by half. The leverage of the U.S. in the talks would always depend on the credibility of a threat that could be carried out only with the continued support of perishable governments and volatile public opinion in the five West European countries where the new missiles were supposed to be based...
...fight for India's independence (and to whom the currently feuding family is not related). Says an Indian newspaper editor: "One wonders which Gandhi she's talking about, the Mahatma or Sanjay? They are not the same. One was a saint. The other was very clever, very ambitious and very self-centered...
...backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context of a Holly wood-style epic. At the end of the play, the audience sees credits on the screen rather than a row of bowing actors. It is unfortunate, however, when a device--in this case, a film clip of battle scenes...
...Argentine sovereignty and to revive his flagging political fortunes, ordered an invasion of the Falkland Islands. Galtieri managed to turn angry demonstrations over a disintegrating economy and the unexplained disappearance of some 6000 Argentine citizens into adulatory displays of patriotism in a matter of days. It was a clever sleight-of-hand that succeeded, temporarily at least, in diverting the country's attention from the economic and political horror that had engulfed it since the military seized power from Isabel Peron...