Word: cleverisms
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...glass. What makes it work is its maker's willingness to stare into the abyss, backed up by the taut, pellucid brilliance of the company's dancing, Andrew Bridge's vibrant lighting and the perfect set and costumes of Santo Loquasto, who has conjured up a hundred clever variations on Fosse's beloved basic black...
...make ends meet on that income you have to be incredibly clever," Kennedy says. "You have to be working very hard. Nobody is going to stay on it if they...
...schedule. The honor of debuting in the post-Super Bowl slot goes to Family Guy, the creation of Seth MacFarlane, a hitherto unknown artist who was just a year out of the Rhode Island School of Design when Fox shrewdly plucked him from the Hanna-Barbera animation stables. "Stunningly clever" is the way Darnell describes MacFarlane's initial pitch, at which the wunderkind performed all the voices himself. "Two weeks later we ordered 13 episodes, and Seth became a star," says Darnell. A seven-minute presentation reel the network took to last May's "up-front" screenings for advertisers...
...Hatchery and Conditioning Center, in accordance with orders from the Social Predestination Room, eggs were fertilized, bottled and put on a conveyor belt. Nine months later, the embryos--after "decanting"--were babies. Thanks to state-sponsored brainwashing, they would grow up delighted with their genetically assigned social roles--from clever, ambitious alphas to dim-witted epsilons...
...doesn't live up to its advance "controversy." Terrence McNally's recasting of Christ as a contemporary homosexual might have drawn more fans had it really been a gay Godspell, as some sniffed. Instead it's a sober, impassioned work, given great force by Joe Mantello's clean and clever staging...