Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced up with impromptu fist fights, Fritos breaks and such literary and urbane interpolations as "Oh, shit," "Get him, dude!" and "You the man"--a brand of humor whose effectiveness, unfortunately, cannot be adequately conveyed in transcription...
...comes as a relief when, in the play's second half, the performance style swiftly sobers up, allowing us to reconnect with the story's plot line and characters--elements that have been largely drowned out during the first half in the loud static of eighth-grade toilet humor. But the bizarrely goofy comedy of the production becomes all the more surreal in contrast with the newly straight-faced drama, providing some startlingly memorable moments: Kirk Hanson '99 as the apothecary Cerimon, hamming it up as he restores the drowned queen Thaisa to life ("She's ALIIIIVE!"); Michael Roiff...
...structurally iffy Pericles into a worthwhile evening's entertainment is, after all, something of an accomplishment. If the play has been changed along the way from a series of adventures into a series of comedy sketches--well, maybe that's not such a bad idea. Plot incomprehensibility aside, the humor created by this gestalt of interpretation and actors comes close to having a breath of genius. And as far as middle-school humor is concerned: although it might make our purist twitch to hear it--when it comes right down to it, toilet humor was something Shakespeare understood quite well...
...confident to be convincing, Michael Moore's humor is based on the same presumptuous cameraderie that Rush Limbaugh uses at the other end of the political spectrum. Laid off Payday workers (the gods of irony smile on Moore) cantankerously predict disappearing markets, and Moore smiles and nods, marching off to recite such stellar observations to the front desks of corporate America, never stopping to introduce the complexities of these problems to his audience. There is no mention of inflation or of developing labor markets, except from the equally prejudiced mouths of corporate representatives. When talking to PR workers, Moore feigns...
...main problems with this novel lie in the fact that Davidson does not know how to engage a reader. While Like Water For Chocolate, a book which Davidson has heavily imitated with her food-as-culture-and-identity-and-feminism theme, had charm and humor, as well as a concrete plot, the plot of The Priest Fainted can be summed up in one sentence: 19 year-old Greek-American girl travels to Greece, makes some friends, has adventurous sex and realizes why her mother decided not to marry a Greek man (because like all men, they, too, are pigs). Coherence...