Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilde's humor. But this production does an admirable job of highlighting as much as possible. The timing, thanks to Director John Wauck, is superb, as the actors jump from one-liner to one-liner. Though the cast is consistently good, Chris Charron's, imperturbable Algernon and Valerie Gilbert's haughty Lady Bracknel steal the show...
...remaining four days Martin devotes to other writing: book reviews, speeches, a new novel titled Style and Substance. Her first, Gilbert, a rather arch attempt at a comedy of manners, received generally favorable reviews in 1982. She has also published a collection of newspaper essays, The Name on the White House Floor...
...three contestants--Gilbert Fuchsberg '85, Daniel P. Oran '87 and Gary D. Rowe '88--and folk singer/Mondale activist Paul Shea received as prizes mock welfare checks, food stamps, and a handful of jeffy beans...
...newly unveiled Part II displays a significant change; Gilbert Noon is now studying for a doctorate in Munich and, more important, he has become a fictional surrogate of D.H. Lawrence...
That may be because not much actually happens. Gilbert and Johanna mope around Germany while her aristocratic Prussian parents try to persuade them both of their un conscionable folly. Dead ends are followed by standoffs. In the interims, Lawrence chats: "How a Times critic dropped on me for using the word toney! I'm sure I never knew it wasn't toney any more to say toney." And he preaches, "Let us confess our belief: our deep, our religious belief. The great eternity of creation does not lie in the spirit, in the ideal. It lies...