Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver hair, Pham took questions for more than an hour in a large, red- carpeted receiving hall, under a huge bust of his mentor, Ho Chi Minh. Throughout the session, Pham lived up to his reputation for haughty intractability, flashing anger at some questions, receiving others with a scornful laugh. He also showed an intransigent commitment to maintaining his country's doctrinaire Marxist course...
Preparing her roles, Battle applies the hard-work ethic she absorbed as a child. For her forthcoming Susanna at the Met, she has gone back to the Beaumarchais play for hints to the resourceful maid's character. "He says that Susanna has a ready laugh, which tells worlds about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which...
...balance and that vital tension can be lost. In the Adams production, the comedy gets so free a reign that the conterpoint suffers and the audience, rather than finding themselves intrigued by the comic possibilities of the script, find themselves more confused about when they should and should not laugh...
...timing, carry the audience along with her through this production of Beyond Therapy. Yes, the set changes are distractingly clumsy, and the flatly acted waiter who finally shows up in the last scene is a detraction. With these problems, though, this is a play worth seeing, if only to laugh out loud and be reminded that most people like Prudence, Bob, Bruce and Durang, wavering between farce and drama, don't know what they want...
Kenworthy got the last laugh, though, when he rammed the ball past Klima to win the game for the Crimson...