Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden shifts between the two worlds--one sane and the other mad--with convincing jumps in technique. And the rest of the cast must keep pace with him. Fortunately for the HDC production, Thomas Gaydos is a most convincing Henry. Throughout the first act his performance has a bizarre flavor that passes very well for insanity. Gaydos can even roll his eyes in approved madman style without a trace of hackneyed or forced acting. Then, in scene one of the second act, he becomes rational without the awkwardness that too sudden or too complete a change from mad raving would...
Only occasionally, however, does The Prescott Proposals achieve any effect with these elements. The explanation lies in the authors' failure to make the committee scenes absorbing as theatre. In the first and last scenes, the international flavor of the play serves, as it should, to heighten the interest of the plot. The plot retreats, however, in the U.N. scenes and the play depends solely and vainly on the dramatic originality of a U.N. committee session on stage to retain the attention of the audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around...
...economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate it into terms acceptable to the Johnson Office. It's translation, of course, but as in any good translation, the flavor of the original is not lost...
...paper stayed white, her pen still empty. She can't get the weekend's flavor and idly, dreams instead. She doesn't wish for Eliot House, Italian food, tag football, or the Philharmonic. And she isn't thinking of Monday's tests. Some Sunday spirit has whisked her away...
...great whales gather the zooplankton, and man should be able to do the same. Dr. Weiss quotes a British opinion that two fishermen with suitable nets could catch about 600 Ibs. of zooplankton a day off the coast of Scotland. The stuff is a paste with a delicate shrimpy flavor...