Word: lightheartedness
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The performances by American educator Thomas Sutherland and British church envoy Terry Waite as they emerged last week from years of captivity testified to the remarkable resiliency of the human spirit. Sutherland, 60, who spent most of his 2,347 days as a hostage in Lebanon tethered by ankle chains...
The show's dark tone has apparently given ABC executives some nervous moments. They reportedly asked Bochco to redo the first episode, adding some comic relief; it now contains a subplot about a woman seeking a divorce because her husband thinks he's Elvis. Other problems remain. Civil Wars has...
Grossman's script has some delightfully lighthearted segments. Richard describes "the basic love equation"--"We set the value of love as an arbitrary constant...Figure has an affect sum as a real and not an integer of the domain zero less than L less than two." Later, when teaching Raymond...
In spite of the message, the show remains lighthearted. Jeanne Simpson's phenomenal choreography, especially in the scene parodying "Singin' in the Rain," helps to sustain the playful tone. The male and female chorus members are delightful, as they spar, tango and symbolically sharpen knives at the dinner table. Although...
He does not seem to feel the marvelous rightness when two players extend each other beyond the edge of what is possible. He does not report the gritty $ stretches when character rules the game's flow and the flow ruthlessly illuminates character. Bud Collins gave us such narration in his...