Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compelling facts do not always cohere into riveting drama. But Mann, author of the social documentary play Still Life, has shaped the trial transcript and other relevant comments into antiphonal form: the lament of a hard-nosed cop will be answered by a raucous drag queen; the surreal anguish of Dan White (incarnated with creepy brilliance by John Spencer) will be followed by some wildly comic testimony that might have come from Carol Burnett's blooper barrel. Execution of Justice, directed by Oskar Eustis and Anthony Taccone, is a major work that seems to stand outside the perimeters...
...even with all those assets which Cornell demonstrated last night, it still could have been defended if it weren't for one additional game-deciding factor--the raucous, rowdy, inspiring Cornell fans which accompanied the team from Ithaca...
...face of all these riotous acts and raucous collisions, Cornelisen raises her eyebrows more often than her voice. She propels the reader through an elaborate wild-gander chase with confident speed but with deftness enough to deal with its various flat tires and accidents. By the end, indeed, she has succeeded in driving her point home without losing her balance. -By Pico Iyer...
What does this mean? Will "vulgar and raucous supporters" henceforth be ejected from games? Will the student sections be broken up and dispersed? This veiled threat is uncomfortably similar to the one actually carried out last fall by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III in response to band "vulgarities." The band's shows are now wrongly censored; will the same soon be true of fan support...
...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...