Word: puckishness
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...beau ideal of a dusty country town, McKellen is all boisterous affection and puckish candor. From the moment he capers onto the stage, he seems infinitely more alive than everyone around him. No matter how thwarted or downcast, he never loses his vision of life as adventure rather than mere existence. But as his admirers gradually realize, the very boyish traits that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful...
...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...