Word: horseplaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedroom is pitch dark. Two young brothers who share a crowded bed are busily not going to sleep. As one of them, Bill Cosby, describes it years later in a classic monologue, the night is an extended comedy-drama of horseplay, taunting and hand-to-hand combat: "I'm tellin' Dad, I'm tellin' Dad . . ." "I never hit you, I never hit you . . ." Each outburst is followed by a visit from their father, who thunders like Zeus, "If I hear any more laughing . . . I'm going to KILL...
...pageantry was, in a sense, just business as usual. But last week's peerless one-acter also marked a new spirit in the productions of the Windsors, the royal repertory company that takes the country as its national theater and itself as its subject. Horseplay was on show as much as horsemanship, and high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter...
...agreeable fancy that loathsomely rich, ridiculous and powerful holders of old names and money have for decades maintained this refuge (in a region unspecified, but resembling the Adirondacks) on the model of a turn-of-the-century prep school: no women, food fights at table, silly songs, horseplay of the towel-snapping kind. One respected judge wears dresses here; another member wears nothing at all. Suddenly there is a murder, then another, then ... Flynn is invited to investigate. Who is expunging all of these parasites? While the venerable members scurry about hiding corpses, Flynn puzzles it through, though the murders...
...totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts have big heads, thick, short manes, chocolate-brown legs and a fondness for friendly nipping, neighing and other forms of socializing. But unless there are more exchanges to prevent inbreeding, they won't have much company for such horseplay. Only 420 Przewalskis survive worldwide, all of them in captivity...
...first interviewed by the state police and the time he actually testified. At the trial. Dr. Michael Shesky denied having told the police that he saw two of the doctors drag DiPietro from the apartment, adding that he only heard scuffing in the hall which he presumed to be horseplay...