Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week later, students in Hanover, N.H. didn't laugh either. Harvard ran by both the Big Green and Brown, scoring more points than Dartmouth and the Bruins combined. The Crimson won all but four events. In Hanover, Grace deFries--grabbed first place in the 800 and 1500-meters, and Jacqueline Boudrean took the javelin and high jump to pave...
...Curse of Kulyenchikov provides theater but no drama. All the tools are the music singing sels interesting costumes lights actors and a supporting crew. But there is little to catch the audience's emotion or to engage their sympathies. The occasional bits of humor surprising enough to make one laugh out load seem oddly out of place. One looks for glimmer5s of human feeling but in vain...
...supply the animating integrity lacking in the play itself. But one wonders what eccentricity of taste or motive led the producers to choose the play in the first place. The play hardly bolsters the interests of art or humanity when it tells the audience (after inviting them to laugh pitilessly at other people's stupidity) that a change in their beliefs about themselves is sufficient to transform their lives. Most people improve their lives only through sustained work or love, and the promise of easy change from within is as misleadingly mean-spirited as it is ultimately depressing...
Shirley Wilbur as Lily provides most of the play's humor. Her cackling laugh and marvelous expression convey her character's wifty lunacy. Everything she knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...
...This has been a very enlightening and very interesting experience for me." Bowie explains. "I couldn't do something like this on a permanent basis," he adds with a laugh. "That is, not until I retire from performing...