Word: foppishness
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...only resolved by a deus ex machina, depends largely on its soloists, whom stage director Davida Fernandez-Barkan ’11 manages effectively. The role of Alexis is well handled by Nelson (in last Saturday’s matinee performance). His strong tenor and zestful portrayal of his foppish, affected character provides many of the performance’s most rewarding moments. In particular, his over-the-top exchanges with his father, played with great aplomb by Yashinsky, are delightful...
...Railroaded! is full of scurvy characters who, when they're not plugging one another, pass the time by making stabbing insults. There's the foppish crime boss who snootily tells a moll, "'Women should be struck regularly, like gongs.' That's from Oscar Wilde." And the moll snarls, "Give it back to him." The moll is Clara (Jane Randolph), one of those diamond-hard dames who, in the noir universe, are there to dish out abuse verbally and take it physically. Toward the end, when Clara gets drunk, Ireland takes her bottle away and gives her a severe slap: "Just...
Jack E. Fishburn ’08 also delivers a reliably good performance as the original doctor in town, Dr. Parpalaid, who sells his practice to Dr. Knock. In his rumpled state, Parpalaid seems at first a conventional bumbling, foppish Old Boy, but comes to take on dramatic importance as a symbol of the traditional, pre-Knock way of life. Fishburn’s ability to command a scene works well for him here: his authoritative joviality makes him a convincingly comic, seemingly harmless persona at first, but allows him to also assume the role of a compelling dramatic character...
...second volume), Pérez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins and a note that reads, "For Masses for your soul...
Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...