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Here Atwood is concerned with rapid and telling characterization, especially of men. In Scarlet Ibis, Don and Christine have gone on vacation to Trinidad, where the decomposition of their marriage picks up speed. Don is the kind of fellow on whom a sunburn, "instead of giving him a glow of health, made him seem angry." He began "drumming his fingers on tabletops again." < When he made love to his wife, it was "as if he were listening for something else, a phone call, a footfall. He was like a man scratching himself. She was like his hand...
These days CBS's future seems to have arrived, and the huzzahs are rare in the company's corridors. Instead, there is much muttering and trembling, as the tightfisted Tisch continues to direct a rapid and ruthless austerity campaign that has so far cost 1,200 of CBS's 15,500 employees their jobs. Tisch has also lopped off entire lines of the sprawling conglomerate's business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting...
...character is a wisecracking child, irreverent senior citizen or cute extraterrestrial. "Let's just say we're not a high-impact comedy like Laverne and Shirley," says Newhart, 57. "We give the audience credit for having some intelligence." Newhart's leisurely, low- voltage style sets the tone; instead of rapid-fire gag lines, he opts for shrewdly timed pauses, stammers and deadpan understatement. He gets his best laughs not so much by acting as by reacting. Says David Mirkin, who produces the show with Douglas Wyman: "Bob is the best 'oh' man in the business...
...break with tradition by recommending beneficial changes. Yet I feel compelled to remind you that it has been many decades since we were at odds with the emu. Indeed we have equaled and, some say, even surpassed the status of that annoying bird. Without a doubt our amazingly rapid ascent to the forefront of God's creatures deserves an enthusiastic round of applause. We as a people are enormously self-sufficient and adaptable--not to mention extraordinarily bipedalistic. At Harvard, we are now in a secure position--financially, spiritually, and evolutionary--to abandon once and for all the dreaded Harvard...
This is especially true of songs which are especially rapid, such as the Major General's song (admirably dispatched nevertheless by Gardner), or particularly soft, such as the duet between Mabel and Frederick (Lee Eichen). But on the whole such moments are rare and really nothing more than slight flaws on an otherwise extremely strong production...