Word: laughters
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...laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold...
...characters stand on constantly shifting planes of reality. When the Stepdaughter (Lise Hilboldt) and the Father (Robert Stattel) see "real" actors imitating the gestures and words they had used in moments of true passion, they initially cannot recognize themselves. When they do, they greet the realization with both laughter and despair. Mirrors and lighting (designed by Michael Yeargan and Jennifer Tipton, respectively) make such scenes visually exciting and intellectually stimulating...
...Walters gave him the phone number of an Equity representative who confirmed her claim. The red-faced cameraman obligingly overexposed himself while others compromised by stripping to their underwear. The scene then went off without a hitch-or in some cases a stitch. Walters had no trouble summoning the laughter called for by the script. The naked truth: the Equity official was really an actor friend helping her pull off a naughty joke...
...that you have an happy a time in this life as I have had, and expect to have for a good many more years." Cox said at the end of his speech. He thanked students for the presents given him, "especially for the polished apple." There was more laughter...
...Athol Fugard, 51, has won international acclaim by resisting the impulse to moralize. Such dramas as "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys, Boesman and Lena and A Lesson from Aloes do not preach against the evils of apartheid; they give institutionalized racism a human face, sometimes stolid, sometimes collapsing in laughter, tears or rage...