Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Emperor Jones do not always read well; but, again as elsewhere, a really fine player can make them convincing. Here, James Earl Jones is better than fine; he is nothing short of magnificent as he moves, drawing on his majestic pipe-organ of a voice and his resonant belly-laugh, from bluster and swagger through anxiety and fright to exhaustion and eclipse. (The role, by the way, bears fruitful comparison with that of Macbeth...
...Robert Burr, played Hamlet for Joseph Papp's free Shakespeare group in Central Park in a production that, with Julie Harris as Ophelia, outdistanced the one on Broadway in nearly every respect save the performance of Burton himself. Papp's group is still doing a successful, broad-laugh presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from a collapsible mobile theater touring the five Boroughs* (TIME, July 10), and at present in Central Park an excellent production of Othello, with James Earl Jones as a hip-swiveling, primitive Moor. The staging is bold. In the bedroom scene...
...have as though they are in an elocution match. They are like men trying to crack a bull whip who have not yet got the knack of it. They all seem to believe that if they just say their lines crisply enough, or forcefully enough, they will get a laugh...
...humor of most lines in a play depends upon what the audience expects a character to say. Sometimes an actor can get a laugh by answering wittily and quickly, when the audience expects him to be mute. Much of Moth's humor in Love's Labor's Lost, for example, stems from the fact that he is not at all cowed by his impressive master, Armado. Another actor can get his laugh by taking longer than the audience to figure out a situation. The Clown's humor in The Winter's Tale works on this principle...
...Vice President is about as valuable as a cow's fifth teat," John Nance Carner declared with some feeling over twenty years ago. Today that statement may draw a laugh but surely not acquiescence. When national magazines run features like "The President's Heart: A Blunt Appraisal," and political writers consult actuarial tables, it is not an overstatement that the selection of a Democratic Vice Presidential candidate has a critical importance...