Word: ribald
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...comment indicates, Berry was wont to zing. His slide shows were raucous, ribald, sometimes even risqu?, and seldom were they kindhearted. If they were hilarious to some, they weren?t to all. Young Roger Clemens, a rook, seemed bewildered by the BLOHARDS when he was a guest at the first club lunch I attended. And, memorably, Butch Hobson, when he was manager, threatened to take us on en masse during his remarks after Berry had tweaked Hobson?s third-base coach, the immortal Zimmer, in commentary during the slide show. Hobson really was fuming. It was a tense moment...
...what is the alternative to a movie kiss? In Sleeper, Woody Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing...
...that opened on Broadway last week, is not about this actual Lillian Hellman. Luce, who celebrated Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, culled Hellman's memoirs to put onstage something approximating the way she saw herself. The result is far from objective history. But it works absorbingly as ribald, poignant entertainment. One of the world's great actresses, Zoe Caldwell, enacts the writer's conversations and confessions in a blend of eerily precise impersonation (down to wearing Tea Rose, Hellman's favorite perfume) and voluble, free-spirited performance...
...popular one-woman-turned-many-women play, recounting in plain words what in another age would have gone unsaid—that is, all in the world having to do with, yes, the vagina. An anti-violence message and some sad statistics save this from being the ribald comedy the name might cause one to expect, but either way you can anticipate upwards of twenty of your lecture- and section-mates participating in this frank talk, which Athena representative Tulita Papke claims “runs the gamut from comic to tragic and everything in between, in a way that...
While the Woman of the Year ceremony is still a ribald event, the HPT treats the award with reverence. For them, the Man and Woman of the Year visits are “icing on the cake”—a phrase repeated by several current Pudding members—a chance to appreciate and connect with a consummate professional, and a chance to have that professional appreciate their production. Ferrante describes the Woman of the Year ceremony as the event that “makes the company a family...