Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man engaging and at times provocative reading...
...plain rattan instead of exuberant Caribbean rococo, and it has only a couple of flowers instead of a whorish chorus line. But the story about Ottilie turning down rich Lord Jamison for poor Royal Bonaparte and the fluctuating fortunes of Madame Fleur has neither the strength nor the wit to profit by this scaled-down production. Arlen's charm-marinated score-which includes a rousing new wedding number called Jump de Broom-gains nothing from small voices onstage and a five-piece combo in the orchestra pit. Yolande Bavan as Ottilie is as pretty as she is unconvincing...
...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man an engaging and at times provocative reading experience...
...from high-flying prima donnas but also carry an entire production herself. In recent seasons she has frequently done both, demonstrating the versatility as well as the power of her portrayals by encompassing the quirky pathos of the aged countess in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, the bawdy wit of Mistress Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff, the blood-crazed wrath of Klytemnestra in Strauss's Elektra...
Slightly taller than a shotgun and blessed with an acidulous nonstop wit, Brooks, 41, was one of the most inventive writers on Sid Caesar's old Show of Shows. Brooks turned performer himself in 1960, when he and Carl Reiner created a free-form vaude ville routine about the 2,000-Year-Old Man. This character was a geriatric loser with a Yiddish accent who invented the wheel but made it square; someone else cropped off the corners and copped the fortune. Later he met Shakespeare ("What a pussycat he was; what a cute beard"). Typically, The Man invested...