Word: successful
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What counts here, of course, is not what's said but how it's said. With such a fine line separating art from reality, the success of the show depends upon the actors' ability to sustain appropriate distance from the audience and from the humor of their lines. The moment an actor shows he is conscious of the absurdity of what he's saying, the delicate veil shatters and the play falls flat. With only a few setbacks, the Dunster House production of "The Importance of Being Ernest" presents a delightfully self-contained and poker-faced version of Wilde...
...were more responsible for the continued success than Mainelli and O'Neill, both former high school field hockey, basketball and tennis standouts...
...success of last year's squad was, at least in part, a result of O'Neill's leadership, Harvard Coach Edie Mabrey says...
There were smiles and handshakes and promises of success aplenty last March when Braniff airlines resumed flying after being grounded in bankruptcy proceedings for more than l½ years. But the Dallas-based carrier, which converted to a discount airline last September, has not regained its cruising speed. Last week, in an apparent act of desperation, Braniff said it would cut its fleet of 30 jetliners to ten and indicated that it may lay off as many as 1,200 of its 2,100 workers. The carrier will halt service on Nov. 5 to ten cities now on its route...
...blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...