Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN BONO TOSSED OFF THAT LINE during the fall campaign, he may have been merely poking fun at the save-the-planet folks, just as he used to trade put-downs with his old partner, Cher. But underneath the comic exaggeration was a serious message. The noises coming from Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues-a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls and even the human species...
...role was to be the comic relief," Bresman says of his experience on the panel. "[I told] how I talked to different professors, the assistant dean of students..., the special concentrations office...
...bring order to the haphazard bumbling of the Donati clan. He is a marvel to watch. Taking care to ensure his delivery is clear and comprehensible, he displays a range of gesture and emotion that transcends the handwaving and mugging of some of the smaller roles. Here, we have comic subtlety of the true buffa coin...
...piece's comic possibilities suffer. The performance does not include a potentially hilarious scene with the Bolognese doctor, and the satirically repeated invocation of Simone's gravitas because he "was once Mayor of Fucecchio" slips by unnoticed. In contrast, Gianni's fingerless salute is just as funny the thirdtime 'round as the first. In addition, thepresence of Buoso's corpse allows for a nicecoup de theatre during the confusion of thelawyer's visit in the opera's final minutes...
...real show-stopper, however, is Jessica S.Semerjian as Lisette, Magda's maid. She radiatescharm, alternating between comic verve andsilken-voiced seduction, and turns her soubretterole into the production's pivot...