Word: deadpan
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...again and adds a fourth. After 15 or so "Accumulated" movements, the dance ends. Like the first gesture, the hitchhiker's thumbs wagged side to side rather than held steady as we are accustomed to seeing it. Many of the movements appear out of place but there is a deadpan humor that runs through this dance and the others, a humor which contributes to the uniqueness of the performance...
...continue to pick up the third and so on. As the music stops, the five pose as a compressed wedge of Spanish soul. What is interesting is seeing the different persona each dancer projects in executing the same action: Elizabeth Garren first, splaying her arms with a measured deadpan delivery; then Wendy Perron, pouting over her twisted hands as she raises them overhead, leaving them crunched over her phooey expression; Trisha Brown next, hunching up her shoulders as if a little too innocent and awkward for such sensual display; and then small Mona Sulzman, sweeping her arms to the side...
...Leverett House production of this amusing and moving show lives up to the fine script. Scarcely a weak spot mars a production graced by excellent acting, good direction, and an appropriately ramshackle set. Miller is superb in a part that requires precise deadpan delivery and a facility for comic monologue--conditions Miller, with his resonant voice, fulfills admirably. His facile transitions from the antic to serious help to underline the serious intent of this comedy...
...Fidrych he would have had dozens of entries for his Dictionary of the American Language. Tom Clark spent five days interviewing Fidrych and the product is this engaging, somewhat sophomoric account of the player's short career. Clark organized the narrative with some witty captions, which are an incongruously deadpan contrast to Fidrych's fractured lingo...
...film, shot in 1976, is not specifically concerned with the treaty that Jimmy Carter is now selling to Congress. Wiseman wishes instead to show how the zone functions. In a progression of characteristically deadpan scenes, he records the mundane activities that define a typical day in the zone: freighters pass through its harbor; Army wives shop at supermarkets; the Governor meets with the press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance...