Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half of the program, Unnatural Acts, is billed as an experience in "total" theater and, while it isn't quite as total as all that, it is an hour of funny, raucous burlesque. The four performers, Benson, Driscoll, DruMarkle and Peter Kovner, race hysterically around the stage in baggy, decorated long johns. The skits are shorter and faster paced than the ones in Beyond Words, and the humor here is largely verbal. The performers in the second half of the show seem possessed by a manic energy and a keen sense of the absurdity potential in any situation...
...humane society would let Condon off the hook. His early books, The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and A Talent for Loving, are among the maddest funny novels of the last couple of decades. They seemed to have been written by Mephistopheles, raucous with glee at the insane excesses of the human creature. But Condon's last several books have been querulous and scolding...
...question remains whether tennis is really fit as a game to draw the raucous crowds of the big American arenas. Tennis's real lure seems to be on precisely that silent psychological level where an arched brow can be the crucial straw of dominance. In its best moments, tennis is like a difficult passage of music. If the audience is very quiet, it can hear the players thinking...
...movie has a raucous undercurrent that is pleasantly disorientating. It is a serious social speculation, but never a somber one. Even if Director-Writer Wertmuller had wanted to take that tone, the fact that a great deal of the action occurs inside what is euphemistically termed a "house of tolerance" would have made any such design unworkable. Director Wertmuller is as much concerned with evoking pleasure as deprivation; her movie has abundant vitality, which sends it skimming successfully over its thinner portions...
...added, however, "If anyone finds these figures cause for raucous celebration, he should be gently committed...