Word: slapstickers
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...generous supply of ingenious business and subtle exploitation of the bare setting. Berenger's increasing isolation, for instance, is cleverly accented by having the rhinos take apart the stage piece by piece until the hero is left on a small island. His use of visual puns and slapstick is very effective. The director does, however, make an unwarranted use of a New Theater style beginning. The play is meant to start off as a slow and sleepy slice of traditional realism and gradually snowball into chaos. Lasky's use of an unconventional beginning undermines this potential effect...
...Groove Tube's version of the perennial Cheez-Whiz with what-have-you creation of the Kraft TV Kitchen commercials makes the food preparation demonstration into a culinary slapstick. When the frantic hands of an unseen cook have finished rubbing Kramp Easy-Lube Shortening into a bowl of apples and mashed potatoes, and when the finished casserole has been brought forth from the oven, the unruffled, marshmallow-toned announcer proclaims the creation of a Kramp first, "Fourth of July Heritage Loaf," appropriately garnished with "a min-i-a-chure American Flag...
...Renoir uses each new shot as an opportunity to restage his actors, according to the new relationships that have evolved among them. All that carries the drama smoothly from shot to shot is the force of their playing. Each character takes a different acting style (melodramatic heroine, slapstick clown) to an extreme; and the series of comic reversals which their conflicts of style engender becomes a social process so vivid that it overrides the startling disjunction between one composition and the next...
...Mikado is one of the more difficult G and S works to perform. Most directors play it either for slapstick or subtlety, but rarely for both. This time, music director John Posner and stage director Timothy Rush have managed to bring out all of the nuances of the work. The orchestra was strong and vibrant, with a full-bodied character in all the parts. The overture came off surprisingly well, especially during the oboc solo, which is as good as any I've heard. The chorus established itself firmly in the opening number. ( If you want to know...
...aggressive copy has helped the firm to treble its billings to $24 million in the past three years. "Would you let your daughter marry a Ford owner?" asks the headline in an ad for Ford Motor Co. To plug pubs run by Whitbread Beer, the agency tried a slapstick pun: "If your wife's not happy in The Baker's Arms, maybe The Feathers will tickle her fancy...