Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert farceurs. The cast at the Loeb is very earnest and energetic, but rarely brings the play to life. The two leads, Ralph Martin as Argan and Melissa Mueller as his saucy, scheming maid Toinette, mug and ham it up endlessly, but it just doesn't make us laugh...
...quill pen). Toinette makes her first appearance on roller skates, and after a while takes them off and goes through the rest of the play in shoes. The daughter's lover, Cleante, comes to the house carrying the sheet music for Love Story--and so on, providing an occasional laugh, but destroying any kind of comic consistency. The audience feels it's being forced to laugh, and never feels entirely comfortable about...
...said that he thought I was "the hardest runner on the team". Later I learned that Fisher, the only black sports reporter covering Harvard football throughout the season, asked Yovicsin in the weekly post-game coaches conference. "Why isn't Sid Williams playing?" After a while Yovicsin would just laugh it off, saying "Williams doesn't know our system" or that "we have so many good backs...
...rough of Camden." They come from Camden, a suburb north of London, and they were given to me by a lifeguard there. I first saw him standing beside the pool flexing his arms. He was wearing long white pants and a yellow sleeveless shirt. I wanted to laugh, but instead I asked him where I could put my towel. He inspected it; it was small and tatty. "Is this all you have?" he asked me in accented English...
Richard Nixon and the press have had each other to kick around for so long that the combat is sometimes treated as if it were a comfortable old joke, like the Laugh-In sock-it-to-me bit. But the issues involved deserve serious consideration. How much do the personal tastes and politics of newsmen color their treatment of a controversial public man? Where lies the boundary between analysis and advocacy? Is the press recklessly tearing down public confidence...