Word: delle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant pitching is good, and could be extremely good. Sam Jones, Mike McCormick, Jack Stanford, and Billy O'Dell should win 60 games between them. While weaknesses in the second line pitching and the middle of the infield will hurt, a line-up with Kuenn, Mays, McCovey, and Cepeda (in that order) can win day in and day out. With a handful of outstanding rookies and a tough nucleus of reliable stars, San Fransisco has the best combination of youth and experience in the league. Any one of four teams could beat them, but the Giants seem least likely...
...hellraiser, with its resourceful scamp of a hero-the traditionally pert and clever servant-engineering a whole repertory of deceptions with a full battery of slapstick. Based on a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio, Les Fourberies is served up in the famous Italian style of the commedia dell' arte. For their sons' sake, Scapin hoodwinks two miserly fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn it a little longer." Whether mimicking the old boys or mulcting them, whether hiding them...
Hear the Animals Sing (Columbia). There was this little boy and he had a magic stick and when he rubbed cows, cats, dogs and lambs with his stick, these animals (real sound effects) began to sing (real tape technician) songs like The Farmer in the Dell and all like that. Three to-sixes go positively daft over it, but Papa and Mama need magical first aid while the cowcophony...
...been spontaneously requested by the audience. What's more, they could have done it in any style from Euripides to the Reader's Digest. For Nichols and May, getting ready for their first Broadway show after years in nightclubs, are essentially modern practitioners of commedia dell'arte, the spontaneous comedy of Renaissance Italy in which strolling players improvised their skits and lampooned their...
Between their act and the performers themselves there is an intriguing interplay, putting in question what is real and what is theatrical, in a way that suggests one of their favorite models, Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, himself something of a modern commedia dell' artist. Is Mike's nervous blinking, audiences usually want to know, part of the act or is it real? (It is real but less pronounced offstage.) Are Elaine's black dresses only a stage device? (It is not; Elaine never wears anything but black.) Some signs of tension underlying the humor suggest that Mike...