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...single set. But to him Hayfever was a very difficult play to perform. Director Chase Wilson may have harbored an illusion of facility at one time, but the finished product demonstrates her understanding of the complexities of this play. Her production sparkles with most of the necessary wit and style needed to bring off an amateur show...
...BEST, Cole Porter wrote songs which seemed so effortlessly graceful they transcended the conventions of Broadway. Porter perfected what was most ridiculous about the conventions, their inexorable chord progressions and rhymes, and his best songs came out sounding ridiculously perfect, luminous in their wit and dazzling in their style. To come across right, they have to be done almost perfectly, too: unstylish style just comes out sounding like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh--a bit like Paul Schommer's orchestra through much of the Loeb's Kiss Me Kate...
Once he begins negotiations, the particular Kissinger mystique begins to operate, and that in itself is almost a harbinger of success. Wit and humor are key weapons. After many years of conferences and confrontations, he has even relaxed poker-faced Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to the point that they can kid each other about the recording devices hidden in rooms they are using...
...brought Huntley to New York in 1956, ostensibly to compete with CBS'S Edward R. Murrow. But a chance pairing with Washington Correspondent David Brinkley at the 1956 political conventions made television history. Huntley's informed earnestness was the perfect foil for Brinkley's wry wit. Enthusiastic viewer response prompted NBC to reunite the team on the evening news in October. The program's sign-off ("Good night, Chet"-"Good night, David") soon became a slice of Americana. The Huntley-Brinkley Report consistently clobbered the opposition networks in ratings and won every major award available...
...whiz-kid promotions in the corporate world is fading, but it is not quite over. Next month, David Kennedy assumes office as chief executive of Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus-Irish at the age of 35. Kennedy, a former Irish chess champion with a dry wit, has made it to the top of the $100 million-a-year line in twelve years. One of these was spent in the U.S., from which Aer Lingus gets much of its traffic, and the others in Ireland, mostly devoted to computerizing the line's operations. He succeeds Michael J. Dargan...