Word: pasquinal
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Goodman's co-workers speak enthusiastically of his talent and dedication, as well as his offscreen antics. "John is a lot of fun," says Barr. "He puts us on the floor." Director John Pasquin praises Goodman's "fertile imagination" as an actor. In one upcoming episode, his character is caught eating ice cream when he is supposed to be on a diet. Goodman improvised the notion of quickly swallowing the ice cream and then fighting off a piercing headache from the cold. Marvels Pasquin: "It was totally rooted in the situation, not something you would ordinarily think of, and hysterically...
Meryl Streep slowly overcomes a role she was not meant for - Isabella, the hysterical novice who is asked to sell her virtue to Angelo to save her brother's life. Lenny Baker is hilarious as Lucio, advocating lechery in the accents of Will Rogers. Director John Pasquin keeps the play moving, even through those last toyings with fate and shotgun marriages whereby the playwright pastes a sickly grin on this mask of tragedy and squa lor. Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's poison-pen letter to the world...
...Kenneth McMillan (the fat landlord, who informs the students that their "openness" is going to "save this fucking country" but whose putative benevolence doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews' set looks as though Weller's people could inhabit it. The second act has a couple of short dull stretches -- a series of jokes about relevance that don't seem awfully relevant any more, and a brief appearance by Bob's uncle to let Bob know...
...having flexed its muscles, Apra was no longer so apprehensive. This week, as President Bustamante studied the bill submitted by Congress, the streets were Apra's. The Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...
...reign of James I, and the plot has been traced to a pamphlet printed in 1618. The story may probably be much older. The original title under which the play was acted was Guilt Its Own Punishment, or Fatal Curiosity and the announcement for the first performance read "by Pasquin's Company of Comedians. Never acted before. Being a true story in Common Life, and the Incidents extremely affecting. Written by the author of George Barnwell." The latter was Lillo's most famous play, The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell, a great success that held...
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