Word: cleverisms
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...traded the theme throughout the orchestra, the violinists' hands becoming nothing but a blur from the rapid bowing. The orchestra members' faces crinkled by concentration, the rapid succession of each measure reached a point of chromatic suspended progression, only to return back to the frantic rapidity, ending in a clever pizzicato ending...
...aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million Bic lighters held up in the dark at some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step too far and cross over the line between the clever and the ridiculous. After Karen falls into a coma, Richard reminisces about how the remains of high school "flowed by like a wide, slow, pulsing river of cool chocolate milk." All this absurdity is tolerable, even amusing, so long as it doesn't also strive to be deep...
...season, look forward to pressing the # key. Hee-hee. That's right. The spring shall bring #, a play co-written by J. Eric Marler (GSAS) whom we once saw wowing audiences from his desk at the pit of the valley created by stacked rafters in Leverett Old Library. Wry, clever, fresh humor and a ruthlessly deadpan delivery marked Posthumous Improvisations, his one-man show of trials and tribs. Will # live up to this? Stay tuned. I am TheaterWatch. Thank you. I am TheaterWatch...
...fellow actors don't appear to be gettingquite as big a kick out of it. Tarantino's verypresence on stage seems to put them--and theaudience--on edge. It isn't really Quentin'sfault--it's just that Wait Until Dark is aperiod piece, a clever, understand brew ofHitchcockian suspense and late-'60s protofeminism.It hearkens back to the good old days, when drugdealers carried knives, not guns, and when WestSide Story was still considered gritty...
Just when Bill Clinton's White House was girding for battle against Saddam Hussein, a much more covert war against Starr was already under way. Tactically, it was clever: defense lawyers were using Starr's own invasive tactics against him, bringing up the workplace and sexual histories of the prosecutors who themselves were dredging up the workplace and sexual history of the President. And it seemed to be working: just as the probe was supposed to be heating up, two of Starr's top lieutenants, Bruce Udolf and Michael Emmick, were being kept busy just defending themselves from charges...