Word: lightheartedness
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Milos Foreman, the Czech director, makes it all very lighthearted and a bit absurd. There is a fantastic equestrian dance sequence in the Aquarius number where two mounted police stallions do a perfectly synchronized two-step.
There are two exceptions. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Rough Strife is a shrewd and sensitively contoured exploration of young marriage and pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent...
The lighting and the music immeasurably enhance the performance's emotional atmosphere, but the production escapes detachment and coldness chiefly because of uniformly excellent acting. Every actor crafts and sustains a character; even the bit parts are people with distinct--if annoying--personalities. Heitzi Epstein (Olga), Jenny Cornuelle (Masha) and...
Two weeks before President Carter's announcement in December of normalization of relations, the Chinese invited Blumenthal to visit the People's Republic to discuss improving economic ties with the U.S. From the time he arrived in Peking, Blumenthal, who is sometimes a moody and distant man, was...
If ever I cease to love, if ever I cease to love," goes the lighthearted theme song of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, "may the Grand Duke Alexis ride a buffalo in Texas, if ever I cease to love." Alas for the Lord of Misrule and his merry minions. With...