Word: puckishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precincts of the opera house, while Theater Artist Robert Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean have pushed out the envelope of movement with each new step they have taken...
...Members of the faculty have wondered if thereis a puckish predilection for making the fur fly,"Bate wrote. Ad hoc committee members sometimes usetenure reviews as a chance to take revenge onprofessional rivals or "to take a shot atHarvard," Bate said...
Indoors, Ashland's shows range from Brecht's Threepenny Opera to a contemporary American comedy, Eric Overmyer's On the Verge, which has never been staged in New York City but has been taken up by a dozen or so regional theaters. This puckish story of three 19th century women explorers who find themselves jolted forward to the 1950s needs a more eventful second act and a quicker ending, but it muses beguilingly about culture shock, imperialism and the meaning, or meaninglessness, of language...
...drawled Ervin, as the hearings got under way twelve years ago, "but if we continue to play hide-and-seek, then it could take a while." It did, and as his committee unraveled cold-blooded conspiracies on live television day after day, self-consciously Southern Senator Sam, by turns puckish and preachy, helped reassure Americans that there were still people in Washington with moral bearings solidly fixed. He retired from politics soon afterward and spent the past decade down home in Morganton, making forays out to lecture and to film an American Express commercial. Ervin, 88, died in North Carolina...
That means that poor Democratic Rep. Norman E. D'Amours, a hardworking puckish little man with a reputation for keeping to himself and his state's best interests, has had himself an uphill fight. New Hampshire's economy screamed in the midst of the 1982 recession, with unemployment among the nation's highest at 9.2 percent. New, at a time when the most effective political rallying cry is "me!", New Hampshire boasts the fastest growing economy east of the Mississippi, Unemployment is at 3 percent. That's the national...