Word: enlivens
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...this adaptation by Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz, Volpone becomes (in literal translation) Mr. Fox, a world-weary voluptuary (Rex Harrison) who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...
...investing in imaginary but typical stocks. Other Abt games are Adman, Automation and one meant to give businessmen a better knowledge of a union's viewpoint by making them play labor negotiators in bargaining sessions. A few company managers have even asked Abt for games that would constructively enliven dull directors' meetings...
...leader" is an editorial, and in Britain that is still what it means. For the past 25 years, Wall Street Journal readers have become accustomed to a different meaning. A leader is the name put by Journal staffers to the long, well-researched general news stories that heighten and enliven the paper's regular diet of business news...
Since its conception by Marius Petipa in 1869, Don Quixote has been revised by three Russian choreographers. Even Impresario Sol Hurok got into the act: at his request, several mime sequences were telescoped to enliven the pace. The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance...
MORGAN! Two gifted young British actors, David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, enliven a way-out comedy about an eccentric London painter who is destroyed by his love for his divorced wife, his mother, Karl Marx and King Kong...