Word: prankishness
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...nothing impressed Thompson like the arm. It was black and clad in green fatigues. Loren Jenkins of the Washington Post saw it in a garbage can outside his hotel. "My God," he yelled, "look at that." It turned out to be a prosthesis, apparently planted by a prankish MP, who splattered it with ketchup for dramatic effect. "We hung Goebbels for jokes like that," declared Thompson. He demanded an explanation. An Army public affairs officer told him, with a straight face: "Sir, that's our disarmament policy...
...this prankish revisionism, good-natured but a touch self-smitten, is the work of Peter Sellars, 25, the director who has worked similar changes on other classics: Handel's Orlando set at the Kennedy Space Center, King Lear featuring a Lincoln Continental. (Subject for a future master's thesis: Automotive Metaphor and the Sound of Cultural Collision in the Early Work of Peter Sellars.) Sellars clearly seeks not so much to rejustify all these stage pieces as to re-examine them, even reinvent them, for a contemporary audience. What is up-to-date in The Mikado is timeless...
This is the premise of a classic thriller: a man without a past trying to survive in a house-of-mirrors world ruled by a manic, eloquent, grandly eccentric genius, a kind of prankish, omnipotent deity. But this is not enough for Rush. In its jumbled hyperactive way The Stunt Man is part corny romantic comedy, part whoop-it-up action exploitation flick, and high-brow, somewhat pretentious anti-war statement (circa Vietnam) and quickie-metaphysical study of Paranoia, Art, and the old Illusion/Reality enigma. The Stunt Man's got it all, even those big, capitalized questions of Significance, which...
...dirtiest political deals in history was made in 1202, when the Venetian Republic agreed to ship the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land to conquer the infidel. An army of some 35,000 men, including hairy Prankish thugs as well as idealistic Catholic knights, assembled on the Lido, but no ships appeared; the Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice...
Stitches (ABC). Medical students inhabit a coed dorm in this comedy, which blends doctoring with prankish college enthusiasm...