Word: laughed
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...Lousy," Johnson answered with a laugh...
...School Drama Society projects a pretty clear message to outsiders. "You won't get this and we don't care." As a result, the rest of us usually keep a safe distance from the whole affair and allow the partisans a few nights off from their grueling routine to laugh at themselves and their colleagues. This year should be no exception...
...Kafka is world-famous celebrity, and may be he's getting the last laugh for all those years of parental disfavor. Not only is he recognized as an important stylist, but he has even been hailed as the quintessential recorder of modem alienation, prophesying in works such as The Trial and "In the Penal Colony" the rise of totalitarianism. Marxists and theologists alike slug it out in studies with titles like The Kafka Problem. The Kafka Debate and even There Goes Kafka; there has even been talk of setting up an East-West dialogue. But the splendor of his posthumous...
...that came with more "modern" times and from which he was lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding enough to focus the silliness. When he is on stage...
This is not to say that Little Me is not still funny, but one tends to laugh at it more than with it. In the original, Belle's many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...