Word: plonkingly
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...accelerating waltz of death takes place against a gilded backdrop of a country villa, with the late summer afternoon plink and plonk of tennis matches offstage, and a snowbound resort hotel in the Dolomites. Mark Lamos, in his auspicious debut season as artistic director of the Hartford Stage Company, has boldly chosen to set his stage so sparely that some of the claustrophobic density of the drama is diluted. But he has distanced his characters from each other in their most intimate encounters so that what playgoers feel most acutely is the frosty chill around their dead souls...
...tendon. Fast reflexes are demanded, however. As the game progresses, some units automatically speed up the ball; others allow the players to set the pace as well as select the length of game (from 2 to 20 minutes). The screen keeps score. Pong and other games emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase noises). They can also be used for squash and handball. In the ticktacktoe game, the set may sneer, flashing a sign-off YOU LOSE TURKEY. For those who want to be the neighborhood Bobby Hull, most...
...comic possibilities of watching Big John do his bullish best to get his man, while tiptoeing through the tea-cozy minefield of British decorum, seem endless. Any American who has tried to take lunch at a club in St. James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social fiddle by busting a few heads in true American democratic style...
...irony, elegance of style, that passion for exactness-trip him up. His heart may be romantic, but his mind keeps playing all these little jokes on his lovers. When the professor kisses, deft quotes seem to materialize like subtitles on a screen. Harrumphs of academic self-approval seem to plonk into the nearest pillow as narcissistic asides. No matter how Stern tries to turn loose the Merriwether demon, it insists on fixing its tie, unwildly holding doors open, and speaking with a broad...
...ballet? "Oh, no, no, no!" he protested, recoiling in mock horror. "I mean there are certain parts of the male and female anatomy which don't stop swinging when the music does. Think how disconcerting for the orchestra. They'd have to add an extra 'plonk...