Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud of it," crows Francine, the 350-pound Roman goddess of plump pulchritude in Alber Innaurato's Passione. Sex and food figure in prominently with the play's comic themes, as they did in Innaurato's highly successful Broadway production Gemini. But where the tasty humor and the social statement complemented each other will in Gemini in passione they form a somewhat less savory mixture. The bittersweet flavor Innaurato aims for is drowned in cloying source of sugary high-energy fun and the salty tears of a misplaced tugging at the emotional heartstrings...
Koppel is even renowned among colleagues for quick humor and dead-on impersonations of Gary Grant, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger...
McKellen, at one point, even does a passable imitation of himself. If his Romeo is perhaps too much a modern teenager, or his Macbeth more empurpled than it should be, there is illuminating humor in his rendering of Hamlet's advice to the players in the manner of a rather fey modern director giving notes to his company...
...enjoyed reading The Crimson's forecast for 1984 ("The year of the Wrap," 1/3/84): a year in which the Kennedy School, armed with nuclear weapons and led by Bok and his coterie of Latin American dictators conquer the world. You captured with humor what the K-School was really about. Unfortunately, the Harvard administration is not known for its sense of humor and appears to have taken your article as a guide to action for the new year. Dean Epps, who used to play "High in the Saddle," has been remodelled and unleashed as Big Brother...
...would necessarily recognize their kin-ship to populist mayor Vellucci. They have adapted to very different environments from Vellucci and from each other: The Gene Age is a clone from the hard-driving, earnest, and competent American biotechnology industry, while DNA for Beginners evolved from the genial and sardonic humor of the English academic New Left...