Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hamlet are offered through a tortuously-named subdivision of the American Repertory Theatre--"A.R.T./New Stages Presents: Late Night Cabaret"--which aims to give students of the A.R.T.'s fledgling theater institute something to do. Perhaps the masters of the company, too long burdened by endless productions of little humor, can learn something from their spirited pupils...
...brief encounter or two downstairs in the men's room. There was that one time when radioactive gas escaped from the Chem lab and wiped out an entire section of freshman Math students, of course. But I didn't feel that would be an appropriate subject for a humor piece. Math and comedy just...
Wilson's greatest gift is his ability to make sense of anger: he writes naturalistic scenes of genial humor turning into an explosive violence that flows from his characters and from the warping effect racism has had upon them. Humiliated in the larger world, these people fiercely guard their dignity close to home. Defeated by enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history...
...entire Borscht Belt of comedians and had lesbian relationships with a number of celebrities. All this has proved irresistible to Seaman, who takes Susann seriously, complete with index, bibliography and detailed footnotes. Lovely Me ^ contains more than 200 interviews and countless inside stories. All it lacks is the salty humor and gutsy immediacy its subject was famous...
...million aid package appropriated to the contras last year. "This is no Administration victory," warned Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "This is an alarm bell." Coming one week after an anti-contra House vote on the $40 million, the close Senate vote reaffirmed that Congress is in no mood to humor President Reagan by approving more money for the rebels. The Administration had been cautiously planning to stall until next fall on its request for $105 million in new contra aid. Last week, however, U.S. officials said the rebels will need additional funding well before then. The Administration plans to push...