Word: enlivenment
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...However, his one-liners and humorous antics could not save The Sorceror from an overall lack of energy. The blame for this major flaw falls on the shoulders of director Thomas P. Large. His attempt to spice up the play with jokes not originally in the script failed to enliven his production...
...resolution was adopted unanimously by the council in its first regular meeting of the year. It contained three proposals to restrict drinking to students 21 or older and three proposals to help enliven drier house parties...
...lengthy roster of new crime fighters is, if nothing else, diverse. Robert Wagner is leaden as ever as a high-living investigator for an insurance company in the dreary Lime Street. The Insiders uses a rock score to enliven the weekly adventures of a hip free-lance reporter and his partner who go undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard...
...same tempered, careful energy level of most of Synchronicity (the last Police I.P), but at least that album contained manic cuts like Synchronicity I and Mother to keep everything out of a too-even kilter. Surely the musical dexterity and spontaneity of Sting's new topnotch band will enliven concert performances, but on the album, lyrics and singing demand attention; these don't deliver any great riches...
...from the U.S.S.R., four dramas make their first appearance in English, translated by the author's son Dmitri. All are adjectival, although an occasional verb wriggles by to enliven the proceedings. All glisten with the celebrated Nabokovian cunning; all are souvenirs of the post-revolutionary epoch when, in some violent reversal of fairy-tale tradition, Russian aristocrats popped up in Europe as commoners, driving taxis, hiring on as movie extras and waiting on tables...