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Most Harvard students who have seen Moore in On Thin lee will agree: the slight, yet highly expressive actor combines wit and dynamism to make such subjects as rice paddies and marshmallow factories funny...
...Francisco, practicing law, he took sum of his assets: a background in communications and language; solid perception that a stuffed-shirt world could stand to lighten up; natural wit; a smile that could sell used snuff. Then he took to the streets...
...hour he had his audience doing "relevant anecdotal exercises" and "ad libs for awkward moments." The audience plunged in with happy abandon, though the wit sometimes was about as sharp as a filleting knife left out in the yard for a year...
...present form, Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with...
...promising subject has been turned into plodding and uninspired drama, all furrowed brows and discordant cellos. Another British multiparter, The Old Men at the Zoo, adapted from Angus Wilson's satirical novel about an impending nuclear disaster, is a musty spoof of British politics and manners whose wit has not survived the transatlantic crossing...