Word: gawking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Square has become a really tourist kind of environment. I think it's a real danger," Williamson said, noting the trolleys full of tourists who come to gawk at the Square and its inhabitants. "We're being turned into participants in a fishbowl experience...
Carolyn Rendell's direction teases the humor out of the play, sparing neither a gasp nor a gawk to illustrate the miserable cultural inadequacy of the American elite. She also knows how to drill her cast: the delivery is snappy, maintaining pace in what might otherwise degenerate into a random sequence of incidents. Rendell marshalls the complicated restaurant scenes brilliantly. Above all, she has an excellent sense of comic timing, and milks the text for all (and more than) it's worth...
Audiences around the world gawk at the production's snazz and scope: / lightning bolts, trapdoors, a musician's tomb that is bigger than Grant's. They bathe in the show's warm melody and soap-opera suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...
When you're finished, head to the Rocky Mountain chocolate factory for dessert. Just be sure to recycle any paper or plastic--Aspen is enviro-conscious to the max. And don't gawk at celebrities--it isn't polite...
...Idle thought: Is Wildmon now on the payroll of liberal TV producers, who use him to attract controversy -- and viewers -- to their shows?) It's hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being a witch. Lear has made a valiant effort to break one of TV comedy's last remaining taboos. But God has always been a better straight...