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...super-charged energy the actors generate to maintain a lively pace and thus enthusiastic interest, soon dissipates as one walks away from the play, appearing frenetic in retrospect. And the short developed one-liners which inevitably rise in frenzy to a punch line grow tiresome in their episodic pace, the constant up, down, bang, slap dash, stage clearing, re-engagement of one's attention once more...
...although they are soon removed by others in the audience, for a few minutes there is an actual dialogue--unrehearsed, unlike the virtual monologue of the rest of the show and the rhetoric of Fightin' Jane's familiar phrases. It is a moment when the tone and the punch-line aren't predetermined...
...talked to him, and brought him back, "Humor him, he's really wrecked, and he's not going to hurt anybody." Fifteen minutes later, he had called me everything he could think of, had tried to get a boost onto the stage, and been pulled back, had tried to punch me out, and had altogether made a nuisance of himself. Once he grabbed my midsection, I suggested we take him out, but we humored him until he tried to punch out two very large people next to him. Then we took him out, four of us because he was heavy...
...Above all, fear not the platitude. Thus: "We live in a world of uncertainty where the most difficult puzzle is man himself." But be sure to have your work illustrated with old drawings from Punch so everyone will see that the platitudes are meant to be humorous...
...past five weeks, Connally has been popping up in remote foreign capitals with the persistence of a political Punch, shaking hands here, patting backs there, talking about the international monetary situation, and briefing all and sundry on the President's summit visits to Moscow and Peking. Nobody seemed quite sure...