Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bonnie and Clyde" is playing at the Brattle on Valentine's Day but don't let that fool you into thinking that it is a sappy, tender love story. It is not. This classic is a comic-tragic-chase-adventure story that will appeal to any February 14th moviegoer...
...insights, its narrator complaining. "I can't stand straight men: they don't lust after me. All they want to do is win arguments with me or beat me at pool. I don't need that shit." Along a similar vein of psychological insight, Michael Manning, an acclaimed sex comic, explains his art through the statement, "I like the idea of humans and animals having sex together. We think of animals as lower, but we also nurture them. It seems like a normal impulse to pull them up one level, to our level...
Instead, the Harvard faculty insists on projecting its hopelessly superannuated Weltenschauung onto current political and social realities. The visceral disdain for the letters CIA--or indeed the entire military establishment--has reached comic dimensions on our campus, a vestige of a political sensibility that in the rest of the country has gone the way of the eight-track tape...
...play made its debut on Broadway in 1976 with John Gielgud as a scruffy but glib old poet and Ralph Richardson as the addled "man of letters" who has invited him home. Last year it resurfaced in London with Pinter in the Richardson part and veteran comic actor Paul Eddington (TV's Yes, Minister) succeeding Gielgud. Last week it returned to Broadway with Jason Robards as the bonhomous householder and Christopher Plummer as his versifying guest...
Chekhov would have appreciated this production of his classic, which emphasizes the script's comic elements. He always insisted the play was a comedy, despite the preponderance of productions that yearned for political implications and darker meanings. The A.R.T.'s Cheery Orchard depicts the passage of an age in the sunlight of a dreamlike afternoon...