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...disparate as The Wizard of Oz and Chantal Akerman's avant-garde French musical The '80s. But everything blends neatly in the witty, zippy script; everybody has a good time. Davis, a living windup doll, plays Everygal to Goldblum as he exercises his ingratiating leer. Carrey (a randy mime) and Wayans (with his turbo terpsichore) give unearthly pleasure. So does Earth Girls, the tastiest thing to come out of a space program since Tang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tasty Hi-Cal Pop-Tart to Go | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Strindberg's 1887 drama about a one-night affair between an aristocrat and her servant, Miss Julie details the emerging European concepts of Darwinism, psychology and the collapsing aristocracy of Europe. This play in the North House Dining Hall should prove an interesting combination of action, mime and dance in what was, in the nineteenth century, a highly innovative and ground-breaking play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts on Campus | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Poetry, seen and not heard, filled Sever Hall last night at a Deaf Poetry presentation that combined mime, signing and sound effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

Cook used ASL and mime in the reading while Lerner interpreted it verbally and added sound effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...Washington, Theater Director Gillian Drake, who four years ago founded Acting for Lawyers, loosens up buttoned-down barristers by having them mime such natural events as falling rain and falling leaves. Says Drake: "Lawyers are taught by their training to doubt. I teach them that what they have to do -- and this is what actors do -- is abandon doubt and jump right in." The practice seems to work. Washington Attorney Robert Trout, who has taken a couple of Drake's classes, says they have helped him "find the human story in whatever is the subject matter of the lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They're Playing Up to the Jury | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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