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...playing at mortal games but overage children playing blindman's buff as the apocalypse closes in on them. Still, they are Shaw's creatures, and in this splendid, savory play they can still beguile. As the daughters, Harris (who takes Rigg's role here) has a madcap-heiress presence, charming herself no less than the others, and Dana Ivey is the daffy dowager queen-Maggie Smith on her way to becoming Katharine Hepburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Distant Thunder | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...engines. Although the London cabs have an ungainly body style, passengers appreciate their contour seats, high roofs and wide doors. Says one American visitor to Jidda: "One sits high in the back, with handles to grasp as the driver works his way through the city's horn-honking, madcap traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Buggies | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...obscure the sustained flat moments in every one of the troupe's movies following Holy Grail Unfortunately, schtick after schtick failed to approach the inspired idiocy that King Arthur and his knights achieved in that film, Rewriting the Gospels (Life of Brian) offered promise, but on film even the madcap Pythoneers seemed to hold themselves back under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap of all--it was cute...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fishing for an Answer | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

Over the course of the past two years, the madcap antics of the Review have included...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Voces Clamantium in Deserto | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

...current hits range from madcap hilarity to Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pride of the London Season | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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