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Even if you don't follow the production's deeper meaning, Ross Benjamin's excellent direction provides for laughter, tension and release at more immediate levels. Making "symbolic," often frustrating dialogue accessible to the audience, Benjamin includes many episodes of welltimed, appropriate slapstick that bring the audience to laughter in the midst of this grim play. When the main characters begin their picnic, Frank eats barbarically while Ernest carefully slices his hot dog; as time goes on, Ernest begins to spit out hot dog chunks just as disgustingly as Frank. Ernest's long hair gradually falls out of his ponytail...
...said the juror, the tape was "basically what convicted them." Some other evidence that legal experts -- including a defense attorney -- thought weighed heavily: Koon's assertion that he wanted to "break bones" to get King to submit, Powell's laughter when he called an ambulance and "war stories" told to fellow officers, and King's appearance on the stand. King did not appear to be the PCP-crazed monster that Koon had described...
...home. A smattering of applause. Then Yeltsin pledged to increase the subsidy to the student cafeteria. A little more clapping. "If there is scant applause to this, that means food is no problem," said Yeltsin. "Or perhaps you are so undernourished that you are too weak to applaud." Finally, laughter filled the room...
Indeed, Stephanopoulos's hour-long appearance was something of a lovefest: while he came peddling Clinton's message of "shared responsibility" and pleas for people to work together, his speech was also marked by witty asides and raucous laughter...
Humor is never in short supply among team members--given such a short season within which to work (the Ivy League championships start exactly 10 days from now), a little bit of self-deprecating team laughter helps take the edge off of what can be an extraordinarily frustrating day-to-day experience...