Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No 21-gun salutes or state dinners at the White House. Oh, there was a private talk with President Carter and Vice President Mondale and a party at the British Embassy. But then Prime Minister James Callaghan was free to indulge himself: playing grandfather to Tamsin, 12, Alice, 9, and...
Worse are the lapses that occur in the course of the action. Sellon, for example, mispronounces the word "elan" as "uh-lan." And one of the funnier lines in the play--Wyke's remark of his wife, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz"--comes out, "She couldn't...
Finally, Frank Kermode, a professor of English Literature from jolly old England, will present the fifth of six Norton Lectures Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Science Center B.
--Jolly good, just what we're looking for.
John Wood, however, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company, gives a bravura performance as Bruhl; it's amazing what a little style, diction, and well-placed resonance can do even for a role like this. Wood resembles a jack-in-the-box out of the box, his long, gangling figure...