Word: tynan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kenneth Tynan, the second most influential of British critics (after Harold Hobson), said in the Observer of the production that "instead of floating along with the right impertinent buoyancy it slumped like a leaden souffle.... Of high comic style, in which the play abounds, the production was devoid. Mr. Kopit deserves better than this...
...Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when it was still in Boston, but- bursting onstage saying "Get a load of all the bottle babies," and dancing as lightly as a weather balloon in the stratosphere-he won unreserved praise from such alto-brows as New Yorker Critic Kenneth Tynan and Sir Laurence Olivier. He also won the Antoinette Perry award as the season's outstanding actor in a musical...
...inner mind of a man destined for sainthood. Not content just to applaud, much of the audience stands and noisily shouts its appreciation for his movingly perfect performance. Appearing in the U.S. for the first time, Scofield was preceded by a reputation hard to live up to. From Kenneth Tynan to Richard Burton, British critics and actors place him among the contemporary greats, ranking him with Olivier and Gielgud. No one who has seen A Man for All Seasons will quibble for a moment. The son of a schoolmaster, Scofield learned his actor's trade as a member...
...quality. For example, Peterson and the fly both consider merde the most understandable word in the French language. "Renew'd by ordure's sympathetic force,/As oil'd with magic juices for the course,/Vigorous he rises." If you can first conjure up a combination of Rabelais and Kenneth Tynan, and then tone your image down a little, you may get an idea of Sidney Peterson's writing...
...wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like an elegant retriever...