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...Youngman, though, is to incorporate those well-worn gags with some audience participation...
...Mikali's greatest triumph, a concert in London's Albert Hall. The plot, as formally predictable as a minuet, diverts without disturbing. Higgins' prose is simple to the point of sketchiness. Sentences lack verbs-a lot of sentences. Clichés nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long now, scenting danger like some jungle animal. . ." Yet if it is impossible to believe any of this, it is hard not to enjoy it. And reading Solo is less strenuous than watching seagulls. A lot of seagulls...
Walters, who heads a staff of 20 therapists charged with advising students and treating their problems, may have one of the toughest jobs outside the Yard. But as he sits in his well-worn office tucked into the third floor of Holyoke Center, one is immediately at ease. In a service that will handle over 3000 visitors this year--including students, faculty, and staff--Walters' soft spoken but frank manner and his years of experience are tested every...
...covered in blood, bruise marks, or bandages--Stallone clearly has trouble the second time around finding any kind of story for his lovable character. Instead of developing Rocky into a more complex hero than the golden-hearted boxer from the slums of Rocky, Stallone blankly trots out the well-worn gimmicks that made his last movie a success. Meet Cuff and Link, Rocky's turtles, for the second time. See Rocky run through downtown Philadelphia again--this time followed by a ragtag of urchins that turns him into an Italian Pied Piper. Listen to Talia Shire tell Stallone she loves...
THERE'S plenty of sobbing and sighing in this Romeo and Juliet. The performers seem determined to convince the audience of their genuine emotions in this most well-known and well-worn of tragic love stories. But as the "pair of starcross'd lovers" move through their familiar story on the Hasty Pudding stage, a curious feeling spreads through the theater--that the show is a farcical shadow of Shakespeare's play. The actors try to sink themselves into the pure emotion of the story and pay no attention to the words they...