Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three, Randall clearly holds the pivotal role--and presents far and away the greatest acting challenge. Once he drops his smooth line of hip patter, Randall shiftsr rapidly through a stunningly broad range of emotions and motivations, his credo "I feel therefore I am." Depending on the moment, he must be honest, passionate, bitingly sarcastic, or so completely detatched that he can recite with a curiously third-person coldness a list of murders statistics or tales of his own bloody crimes. Lamar handles the transformations so naturally and so strikingly that the audience is taken aback, both startled and pulled...
Simmons' weekday show is a chattery potpourri of exercise ("Tuck in those tushies, girls!"), diet tips ("Peanuts will make you full!") and cheery behavior-mod patter. His Never-Say-Diet Book is No. 1 on the New York Times's bestseller list, where it has been lodged for 38 weeks. At 5 ft. 7 in., 138 Ibs., Simmons seems a model of svelte fitness, but he knows whereof he sweats. As a boy in New Orleans, he sampled so many crêpes suzette at the family's restaurant that by his 18th birthday he weighed...
Sounds like fun, and it sounds like the perfect opportunity for enlisted folk to launch some harmless barbs at the big bosses. Can't you just hear the casual patter as another morning of exercise draws to a close, with a stenographer saying to a general...
...performances. As Colonel Calverley, the leader of a troop of dragoons whose fiancees have all fallen in love with the poet Bunthorne. William Propp wins over the audience from his first entrance. In one toothy grin, he can look mischievous and still hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning to the phrase "heavy dragoon...
...here: throughout the song, the dragoons bounce up and down in rhythm, grimace and moan under the Colonel's weight, and end up overwhelming Propp's noble effort. The chorus's distraction in this scene is especially regrettable because the Players have added a sensational new verse to the patter-song in which Gilbert's original recipe--including "the pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory" and "the humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)"--is supplemented by additives like "the biceps of Ryan O'Neal" and "the eyeballs of Kermit the Frog...