Word: horseplay
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...production, the final arbiter is the director. Michael Kahn (Merry Wives of Windsor) and Edward Payson Call (The Tempest) concentrate on horseplay, swordplay, and foul play, or foot play, arm play, and hand-and-wrist play. But of true drama they seem to have not the remotest inkling...
...question. TV newscasts, after all, are the major source of news for most Americans. Locally produced news shows-75% of the total on the air-were never models of journalistic achievement. The average half-hour report allots only 16½ minutes to news and editorials. Even without backchat or horseplay, the program is little more than a superficial headline service...
...thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay and some lovely dancing ensue. What everyone came to see was Nureyev, who (except for an all but transparent set of tights) kept himself unexpectedly unobtrusive until Act III, when he showed by leaps and bounds why everybody comes...
...bigger role in ghetto law enforcement is that they can do it bettermore fairly and more intelligently. Says Deputy Chief Inspector George Harge, top-ranking black cop in Detroit: "Language is the biggest barrier. White policemen find it hard to differentiate between riot language and horseplay language. Some black talk implies an imminent riot to whites, but to blacks it is a way of life. A rash decision by a patrolman based on language that he believes is offensive can precipitate instead of quash a riot." Leon Fisher, a black cop assigned to the juvenile bureau...
...quite losing his innocence, he does arrive at a visionary acceptance of all mortal matters as so much moonlight on the Ganges. "To hell with judging!" he concludes. "I have no opinions, I am beaten, and I just accept all this phenomena, this diamond-cut-diamond game, this human horseplay, this topsy-turvyism, as Life, as contrast...