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...particular, Javornik delivered a convincing performance as the boastful young suitor. His sexual innuendos always elicited knowing laughter from the young men and women in the audience. And Rendell's voice carried well--her clear diction stood in sharp contrast to Sacks' undiscernable rants, shouts and grumbles...
...This is not the way I pictured it," her frustration gets a mounting laugh. At the climax, her staccato pleadings fuse into an aria of justified rage and saintly forgiveness toward the limits imposed on her by life and by her loved ones. Abruptly, spectators who were crying with laughter are simply crying, without any sense of being manipulated. The ability to find humor in unlikely places, then shift emotional gears with no machinery showing, makes Simon a great comedist...
...energy, she veers from Gracie Allenesque comic illogic to mistrustful tantrums and wistful dreams. Simon and Ruehl have conceived her as forever adolescent, fated to be poised all her life on the edge of expectation but unable to cross over. If Simon's terrain is the border country between laughter and tears, Bella's is the no-man's-land between hope and despair. It is a terrible place to live, and an unforgettable one to visit...
...like those from the gulf war and the thrift bailout, could again postpone that day indefinitely. Last week Bush told several thousand businessmen and -women in New York City that the deficit would be "virtually eliminated by 1995." The audience reaction was a mix of scattered applause and derisive laughter. As one of Bush's predecessors put it, you can't fool all of the people all the time...
LUCY & DESI: BEFORE THE LAUGHTER (CBS, Feb. 10, 9 p.m. EST). Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard, winners of CBS's anyone-can-star contest, play the former First Couple of Comedy in a TV movie about their "loving but stormy" marriage...