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...working on her third collection of short stories--entitled "Later the Same Day"--to be released in April. Paley said she does not think she has the disposition to write a novel. "I believe in the infinite terseness of story--[even as short as] two-pages," she said to laughter...
...funding available to Office for the Arts productions). Moreover, the cast features some particularly good performances, most notable those of Patrick Bradford and Jim Caudle. Unfortunately, last Saturday's show was marred early in the second act by an actor who broke out of character and into unexpected laughter before making an unplanned exit from the stage. He did regain control, and managed to return to finish the scene (with some difficulty) and the remainder of the play, but the distraction had a disturbing affect on the tone and reception of the evening's performance. However that role has apparently...
Although the various "contests"--among them "Best Anecdotal Speech," "Most Mixed-Up Statement of the Trickle-Down Theory," and "Best Rags-to Riches Story"--drew between them only three entrants, the presentations elicited substantial laughter from what appeared to be a predominantly anti-Reagan audience...
This is not to say that Mondale performed with a rhetorical virtuousity anywhere akin to the masters of yesteryear. He still plods along in a monotone, his laughter is still awkward, and he continues to suffer from a self-seriousness worn only by the truly indignant ("It's not fair...
...Humans are the only animals that know they have to laugh. And we laugh because we know we have to die. Well, it's a good way of spending the time in between." Author Umberto Eco, 52, has long contemplated the many kinds of laughter, including recently the all-the-way-to-the-bank kind. The awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City...