Word: horseplay
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...Eliot, now Anouilh. He also rather tends to defeat them: Anouilh's long play has the weaknesses without the high compensatory moments of Murder in the Cathedral. In its 22 scenes, Becket offers all manner of effective pageantry and colloquy and confrontation, even of wenching and horseplay; it runs up and down a whole verbal keyboard, playful trills and prayerful chords and swelling harmonies...
...playful than the usual production, more given to sassy detail in an unmolested design, to whispering what is commonly bellowed or enlarging what is usually small. Just as D'Oyly Carte elegance runs a bit too much to horsehair, Guthrie robustness smacks a bit too much of horseplay. But this Pinafore is Gilbert and Sullivan, not Guthrie and Sullivan. Thus, as Josephine, pretty, pleasing-voiced Marion Studholme sings her arias impeccably for the lovely songs they are; and if Sir Joseph Porter capers, he was always wont to caper, and was always meant...
...Casey tang. And despite symbols that are more like stencils and incidents too much like one another, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy has its amusing scenes and its fiery ones. Unhappily, in a quite un-Gaelic and ponderous production, there emerges nothing of the robustly comic playwright; the horseplay is elephantine, the darts are leaden cannonballs. What alone and all too stridently emerges is O'Casey's angry protest. Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, in any real sense, has still to be produced in New York...
Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...
...park. In a pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost him a day's pay ($275). Next night the Duke was back in uniform, sore...