Word: puckish
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...puckish satire," Benjamin says of the play, which has elements of Renaissance drama, political comment and such Pudding traditions as the 'punrun,' anachronisms and time manipulation. Mark O'Keefe calls the show "more realistic," and adds that it is "a more sensitive or sympathetic treatment of women than in the past, if that is even possible...
...each in disappointment at their failure to save lives, not least, prospectively, his own. Ned is as hilariously self-congratulatory and self-critical as he was in the Kramer play that introduced him, The Normal Heart, and Jonathan Hadary gives the performance of the year balancing his rage and puckish mockery...
...Puckish satire, which draws from Shakespeare and the modern political scene," Benjamin said, adding that the play also lampoons modern media...
...visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother and now closed up by his father -- live country folk who can talk to animals, notably the puckish Dickon (John Cameron Mitchell). The first act takes a long, slow time setting things up. The second act thrillingly resolves them. Like the novel, this adaptation rewards patience with a satisfying surge of emotion, a sense that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world...
...this seems a lot of hoopla, given the fact that the 71-year-old 60 Minutes curmudgeon usually zeros in on fail-safe targets like health clubs, cereal and encyclopedia salesmen. But starting last December, Rooney blundered beyond his usual puckish humor into a series of ill-advised and sometimes ignorant statements. On a prime-time special called A Year with Andy Rooney: 1989 he listed "homosexual unions," along with smoking and alcohol abuse, among the "self-induced" causes of death incurred by Americans. There were immediate protests at the implication that gays willingly contract AIDS...