Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
...repertoire: neon-haired schoolgirls straight out of Japanese animation flirt with sharp-dressed business executives juggling briefcases and cell phones. Of course, some also claim that the more things change, the more they stay the same. And that's probably the real reason that this clever, high-energy production is just so gosh-darned entertaining. The Mikado, as presented by this exuberant cast, is still funny after all these years...
...obligatory happy ending, exactly who has been doing what to whom. But all this hardly matters. The reason for The Mikado's enduring popularity is not the complexity of its plot; it's the play's fast-paced, brilliant comedic development, endearingly ridiculous characters, unremittingly sparkling dialogue and clever patter songs, which include some of the best-known ditties in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire...
...have a clever, knowing, "genre-bending" movie that has to dig deeper in the pockets of Rich Man Horror for a payoff to your fright center. Don't look now, but there's a guy with a knife behind you--and you know that because you've had pubescent sex you will die. Audience laughs at movie, at movie's genre, at selves. Everyone thinks they're so damn smart...
...Cure's talent on display. "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" was wound up and presented with the beautiful interplay between Gallup's bass guitar and the guitars of Smith and Perry Bamonte. Smith held the song down with delicate guitar picking and clever use of his effects pedal while Bamonte threw in some violently untamed guitar solos. On this song, as he did throughout the night, Gallup alternated perfectly between powerful riffs and steady subdued bass lines...