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Boisterous ensemble numbers, such as "I Had Twins" and "Come With Me," have just the right angular snap to accompany the vivacious goings on-but, surprisingly, these numbers are few and far between. From the wry and ironic ("He and She") to the mock angry ("This Must Be Love"), love songs carry the evening. Rodgers and Hart humanized this essentially cruel comedy of slapstick and pratfall by bathing it in soft and lyrical Broadway footlights...
...from South House, introduce themselves. #1205 attired in an Annie t-shirt and a black mini-skirt says all her roommates are participating in the revelry as #061, decked in jeans and a black t-shirt, spins her violently in a circle. They soon move along, engaging in mock combat...
...flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...
...that last, the thanks of a grateful nation. Trouble in Paradise is a series of twelve interrelated songs set within the balmy regions of superficial ease where disaster keeps bobbing to the surface like a corpse in a reflecting pool. I Love L.A., which opens the record, is a mock-heroic epic of the sun-kissed glories of Southern California, mixing conventional imagery of Beach Boys serenades and fast rides in convertibles with darker asides about "a big nasty redhead" and a bum "down on his knees." Like the other keynote songs on the record-Christmas in Capetown, Miami...
...most successful ads seem to indicate a quivering sensibility or a rakish, humorous personality, perhaps with a naughty hint of "life in the fast lane." The New York Review of Books often features a mock high-cultural tone ("Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from a woman who is a poem"). Sincere is the lowest-ranking adjective, says Sherri Foxman, author of a new book on the subject, Classified Love. "If you write 'Sincerewoman seeking sincere man,' you're going to get 25 boring letters." Since standards of accuracy are not always rigorous...