Word: cleverisms
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Jaroff first met Watson two decades ago, when the magazine ran a cover story on genetics. He has kept in touch over the years, but this was his first meeting with the more reclusive Crick. "They're both very clever and very funny," says Jaroff. "They were almost as euphoric as they were the day they discovered the mystery of life...
Donna Ames is brilliant as Isabella, although she seems to warm only gradually to her character through the first act. But by the second act her acting and singing are consistently stellar. Ames's Isabella is indeed Rossini's willful and clever heroine; she is convincing in her character's guile...
...real or imaginary doubles has been pretty thoroughly and bookishly exhausted by everything from Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray to Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight: "I knew all about these fictions about the fictions of the self-divided, having decoded them as cleverly as the next clever boy some four decades earlier in college. But this was no book I was studying or one I was writing . . ." Here a slight demurral seems appropriate: this is obviously a book that Roth is writing. His claim to the contrary is part of the trap he sets...
...middle-aged woman defense attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the clownish Mafia and the stumblebum cops are chasing after Mark and his motherly mouthpiece. Gnome alone! Hide Nintendo and try this one on your clever 11-year...
...ongoing comedy of errors and mistaken identities results in stylized mayhem and confusion in the palace. Clever cross-gender casting by director Billy Hulkower adds an uproarious touch, furnishing an endless supply of thoroughly silly, but funny, gags...