Word: mirth
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...only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve an inflection into a tombstone, and she blows bubbles of mirth that might have lured Ulysses off his course. She keeps theatergoers from remembering that the play's the nothing...
...which caused his endless mirth...
...carping. The play makes you laugh and all complains dissolve in the mirth. What's left is worth having...
...opener called White Lies, Shaffer tries to be wise rather than clever about lovers and lovelessness. As an impoverished fortuneteller, Geraldine Page performs with feline grace, but Shaffer's dramatic crystal ball is murky. Fortunately, the evening is redeemed by Black Comedy's dancing waves of mirth...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT brings an antipodal pair, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, back to Broadway once more with a jaunty, sly revue in what they call "the theater of kindness." They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth...