Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hallowed arches of studio gates and we eat it up. Though he'll stoop to complaining about airport baggage claim, and paints his calling as the most thankless in a business of thankless tasks, he vividly conveys the soulless jockeying for position that forever keeps Hollywood out of touch with quality, if not reality...
...true to form, it looked like the Crimson might touch up Kordish in the first inning, when an Elliott Rivera single, a Brad Bauer walk and an error to the Tiger shortstop loaded the bases with one out. But after taking both batters to three-and-one counts. Kordish got Vinnie Martelli to pop up and Don Allard to fly to right...
...finale, the characters pass around English flags and wave them as they sing the last song. That final touch rounds off a perfectly exquisite evening of G&S--one leaves humming the show's most memorable melodies, twanging with English accents, eagerly awaiting a seventh and yet an eighth opportunity to see the show...
...playing, and a sense that despite her temporary befuddlements, her Anne is on the way to becoming a woman of genuine, and entrancing, character. Having her conduct her relationship with Edward while they are involved in a drama club production of The Duchess of Malfi puts them in logical touch with a group of eccentrically orbiting minor characters and imparts a resonance, narrative richness and a range of human interest extraordinary to find in a film by young people...
...allusive humor, Durang still needs to work on rounding his characters. The actors in Harvard's production, giddily directed by Actor Mark Linn-Baker (My Favorite Year), are adept, but only Daisy (Stephen Rowe) is given a moment of credible self-awareness. If Durang could bring a touch of the play's final forgiveness to its early scenes, Baby with the Bath Water would mark a major advance in an already noteworthy career...