Word: impish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actor of Ian Richardson's scope and power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord at the Second Coming. He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum. And alongside that, Richardson maintains a physical counterpoint of impish comic invention, which is an equally essential element of the Shavian rhetoric...
...most affecting number, If Ever Married I'm, dropped from the matchless score of Kiss Me, Kate. Mary Louise has a sultry approach, the allure of sharing cocktails at twilight, and she is a kind of smoky torch song. Anita Morris is stunningly lovely, with some of the impish mischief of Gertrude Lawrence and a delicate edge of satire in her voice that Porter would have relished. There are 32 numbers in all, and a good half well repay the hearer...
...face feels disappointed and foolish when the actual source of the conspiracy is revealed. Although Mayer jeers at immorality, he ultimately shifts the blame from us, perhaps in pursuit of, perhaps as a jab against happy endings. The conspiratorial evil is not the evil of earthlings. Instead Pxyzsyzygy, that impish elf from the Fifth Dimension, manipulates us and warps our innate goodness...
...Loeb production of Facade is a liberating and refreshing change from conventional theatre, and though Sellars' zaniness is occasionally only cosmetic, he more than makes up for it in his irresistable imagination and impish originally...
...Apennine peninsula as a way of exacting revenge for sullied national honor. The cause of all the indignation was what Italians saw as an outrageous cultural slight. It came from Japan, of all places, and was aimed at one of the most beloved of 19th century Italians: the impish little wooden marionette Pinocchio...