Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor was bizarre and not just on the screen. He gave a dinner party for Actress Gertrude Lawrence at which all of the food-"the soup . .. the trout, the peaches, the ice cream," as he later recited gleefully-was dyed blue. When Peter
...drunk, take it out the next, get drunk, and so on ad nauseam. He was eventually fired because he made the system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride...They harbour no thought--but what power...
...discourse. One entire chapter is devoted to a detailed analysis of Russia's greatest calling--hiccups. Another chapter is a bartender's manual for some of the most bizarre drinks ever conceived, including an unorthodox mixture of beer, two kinds of shampoo (one anti-dandruff), and insect repellant. The humor ranges from the highly subtle to the truly gross, most of it reasonably well-served by J.R. Dorrell's colloquial translation...
...Conan O'Brien '85, president of the Lampoon, said last week that the undergraduate organization, which periodically publishes a humor magazine, had no intention of donating space in their castle...
Madeiros' performance and that of fellow dancer Dean Gregory stand out as excellent. The most engaging, though, is that of Leslie Rickert, whose sense of humor and absurdity gets this production over the rocky spots. In a rendition of Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" sung to the tune of the Annie hit "Tomorrow," she sings, "Yesterday, yesterday, you're only a day away." In striking contrast, one player's style is either a poor parody of Laurie Anderson or a case of performance-art plagiarism...