Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space. At the beginning of this production, when the actors lug in part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb Mainstage. With the orchestra pit unaccountably retained for a handful of musicians, it feels like watching a play from the opposite side of a lake...
DIED. Bosley Crowther, 75, sober, scholarly film critic for the New York Times from 1940 to 1967, and author of The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire (1957) and Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer (1960); of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco...
...offer a sober assessment of the state of the nation, as well as realistic options for the future. We have not been willing to dedicate ourselves to change, yet change is overpowering us. Does anyone think we can't alter the future? We do so every day, through our advocacy or our complacency. Accepting reality doesn't have to mean shelving cherished values and institutions, but it does mean making them work...
Cautious, guarded, deliberate - with those sober qualities, Adolfo Suárez became Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister in two generations...
...great virtue of Alvin Epstein's American Repertory Theatre production is its dextrous explication of Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique of the half-life of the bourgeoisie; he gives it such sober clarity that even the most plumped matron must follow Brecht point by point, and shudder...