Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another problem is that some of the clever word plays in the book become thudding puns in Looking Glass because they are taken out of their original context. The funniest parts of the show are those in which the adaptor's hand is least conspicuous, as in the Tweedledum-Tweedledee episode...
THOUGH LOOKING GLASS is a disappointment, the Mather House production and especially the cast should be awarded a collective medal for a game try. The costumes designed by Liz Perlman were clever to the point of genius. Humpty-Dumpty's even got a round of applause. The players for the most part tried to overcome the weight of the show and even managed to succeed at times. Kitty Kean as Alice captured the innocence and charm of Lewis Carroll's character so well that it was easy to forget she was about three inches taller than half the people...
...have read the Nestle view and I have heard their statements. I find that their argument is clever yet largely fallacious. Nestles, like many of the large transnational corporations, can afford millions of dollars to promote their products while appearing to adhere to newly promulgated guidelines. What are the holes in the Nestle argument? I shall deal briefly with three of these...
...sure to be boggy places where what we see is not a fairy tale but a wounded budget projection creeping off to die. The difficulty is not even that by now we are overentertained and grumpy about song-and-dance numbers. (In The Wiz they are bright and clever, but as elaborate...
...Michael Apted has obtained a riveting ensemble performance from a dream cast: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. Though it is difficult to capture the physical tension of Pinter characters on a small television screen, Apted grips the audience with a judicious use of tight closeups, clever editing and proper attention to Pinter's pauses...