Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gould hints at such a focus on the chief guardian. Reilly, Addressing the audience directly and mysteriously returning at the play's end, he appears to merit special emphasis. But he remains ambiguous, breaking into humor or losing control with no apparent provocation, and his inconsistencies seem signs of incomplete thought rather than deliberate attempts to reveal other sides of his nature...
...Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder believable and his vengeance justifiable...
...Humor, of course, has its place in The Crimson and we hope and believe we can stand being poked fun at, when it is deserved. Yet some of the correspondence on Bloom County transcended humor, or even snideness. People seemed concerned more than anything to use The Crimson as a punching bag--a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed in the past. One gentleman commented that "no one gives a damn what the Crimson's policies are," an indication of the slightly schizophrenic light in which the paper is seen: the people who say "nobody gives a damn...
...show is a string of contemporary vignettes, each one based on one of Aesop's fables. Some of the scenes, like "Tortoise and Hare," are rousing song and dance routines: all feature sharp, wise-cracking humor. Yet, although most of the scenes are winning in themselves, the show overall lacks direction and flow; it's missing a theme and a pattern. The numbers come in haphazard arrangement, seemingly without design, each revealing a neat moral cliche that could be more efficiently placed in a greeting card...
...whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap far enough to pluck them from their vise. Close and Dotten fill up the stage with their voices, their pantomimes and their humor...