Word: slouchingly
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...actors flirt with members of the audience--which could be dangerous if someone beveraged on the complimentary DiSabato Rose gets jealous. But Wednesday night, with tuxedoed patrons filling the tables and Art at the fore it was a sort of provincial triumph for Mather House. It's a long slouch back from Alphaville...
Will Rogers' act is hard to duplicate, because it was never prepared. He spun his jokes and anecdotes as he went along, rambling freely from one subject to another. But Whitmore pulls off a convincing transformation. He drops into Rogers' loose slouch and takes up his labored, bow-legged walk. He alternately fiddles with a lariat or stuffs his hands into his pockets. Whitmore even picks up Rogers' twant and grin. Most all all, he exudes an infectious warmth and enthusiasm. If the act sometimes seems planned or forced, there moments are mere exceptions. You rarely question...
...tragedy of modern life. The pathos and existential incongruities of his earliest cicus figures, painted in the poignancy of his Blue Period, never made it to the happier atmosphere of the Left Bank. In their wanderings along the empty beaches of a pictorial and spiritual vacuum, their sad-eyed slouch re-appears on the roads of Fellini's La Strada, their shabby existence is spot-lighted in the arena of The Clowns. On the beach, they will later encounter Picasso's "Seated Bather" (1930), a skeletai nightmare perched at the water's edge, turning the earlier symbol of the beach...
...brutality of suppression made heroes and martyrs of the wild-eyed I.R.A. troopers in their makeshift gray-green uniforms and slouch hats. Many of them refused to lay down arms even after partition in 1921. This established the Irish Free State in the South, and in the North left six counties of Ulster predominantly Protestant (see map) as an integral part of the United Kingdom, with its own Parliament at Stormont. First the gunmen fought against the Black and Tans, the hated English force that policed the last vestige of British rule in the early '20s, an era immortalized...
...Eliot begged him for an autographed picture. Thornton Wilder found him sequestered in Finnegans Wake.* The first man on the moon mimicked his fluid slouch. Clearly, Groucho Marx is a man of parts, and eight of those parts are preserved in this collection of uncritical, oversized photographs and classic film routines...