Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norma, his fantasy object, affects the accent of the Viennese doctor in Lugosi's Dracula as she discusses the "inner cheese of life." Just as self-consciousness leads Norma to make a joke out of the "energies of life," this whole book concerns Muldoon's discovery that the voice often masks the subject; action similarly disguises reality. Muldoon is aware that "unseen and mysterious forces" propel him. He recognizes that the Light--wisdom or maybe just balance--drawing him beyond the everyday world is as inevitable as the lure of the apple to Adam...
...Most of the callers don't believe it's a mix-up," Michael A. says. "They insist it must be a joke...
...Edward to destroy himself and to bring Flora new life. But when awkwardly portrayed in concrete terms, the Matchseller appears to be little more than a speechless idiot who mystifyingly turns Edward into a raving maniac. The enigma of the Matchseller figure is lost and the play becomes a joke...
When asked about available rooms for Commencement Week, Ellen Aronovitz, reservationist at the Holiday Inn near the Law School on Mass Ave, said yesterday, "That's a joke. We sold out for the nights of the 15th and 16th two or three months age." The hotel won't take any reservations for 1978 until next July, however...
...Kate. Or, having been frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke. Or she may soften, ending up as a loved and loving Kate who has deftly fashioned a new self-image. She may be any of these things--and, in the best productions, is probably all-but she must be a Kate who reveals her capacity for change as well...