Word: mischiefism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is didactic and padded with anemic subplots. It lives through Conti. Quite apart from his resonant vocal range, he has wondrously expressive eyes, incendiary in rage, impish in mischief, grave in contemplation and stinging in pain. Few Broadway debuts are so auspiciously marked on the dateless calendar of brilliance. It is a measure of Conti "s achievement that we cheer his victory unto death and mourn the loss of the man in the same instant...
...leaving a scorched earth behind them, with "plundering, bombing shelling." of China people's did not homes deny and that wanton its troops were rooting out military installations and blowing ^up bridges and railroads as 1 they withdrew, in order to sanitize the border against future [I Vietnamese mischief. Peking also hinted that it might send back some troops in several disputed border enclaves-an affront to Hanoi's delicate sensibilities. Although the Vietnamese escaped punishment, Premier Pham Van Dong is unlikely to forget the humiliation of the invasion, and might launch a few guerrilla forays...
...this new version a fresh view or just mischief making? Ponnelle did not choose the framework of a dream gratuitously. Senta's reveries verge on hallucination. Other characters sing of their dreams. By eliminating intermission breaks Ponnelle keeps his own vision flying. He also makes a point: it was time for the Met to present an example of the most exciting, if divisive, opera productions now being staged...
...figure as the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Characters like Lady Margot Metroland, Mayfair hostess and procuress of Decline and Fall, Mrs. Melrose Ape of Vile Bodies, the American evangelist modeled on Aimee Semple McPherson, Basil Seal, highborn wastrel of Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, and Lord Copper, publisher of the Beast in Scoop, still delight because there are always new grotesques to fill the shoes of Waugh's caricatures. And his work has more serious undertones: extrapolations of what Waugh called "existing social tendencies" led him to premonitory...
...cheats on her hus band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest of his life. Waugh's most savage literary revenge for past hurts occurs in Black Mischief when Basil Seal unwittingly dines on his girlfriend during a cannibal feast...