Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAY'S bawdiness and humor are over-emphasized in this production: the citizen Donado (William Fuller) could have fumed at his foolish nephew Bergetto without blustering like one of the magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which...
That the moral obligation to repay the university is stronger than any legal bond. "It would be foolish," Peterson said, "to throw away three million in alumni gifts for two million in tuition...
...income and student housing have been temporarily shelved, the Treeland-Bindery project for Faculty-student housing is just beginning to get underway. Although the low-income projects are essentially good ones, it is naive to think that they will come anywhere near solving the housing crunch. Particularly foolish is the conception that more Faculty-student housing will somehow eliminate student pressure in the housing market. And it is patently absurd to use up 1.6 more acres in the Riverside area (as in the Treeland-Bindery site) for more student housing, when it will neither eliminate Harvard students living...
...other brother holds up a series of cue cards- "Radio," "Hot Water," "Happy" -and the audience is supposed to provide sound effects with specially provided kazoos. Steven and Joel (nice guys that they are) are very anxious to have the audience enjoy and take part in this boring, foolish game, and (this is where the tyranny comes in) they manage to make non-participating members of the audience feel anti-social, insensitive, mean, and inhibited by serious negative oral fixations. Audience participation was never before such an embarrassing ordeal. Meanwhile, those who are participating produce bursts of sound effects that...
...vital intersection of Molière's genius, the place where la vie tragique meets la vie triviale. The ultimate humanity of Molière is that he can make an audience laugh at a man's folly, then make the audience feel how that foolish man suffers, and finally make us all realize just who that suffering fool...