Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Atkinson does not fit the play to the demands of a modern audience, he tailors it well to Leverett House's theater. The oak beams and wooden panelling of the stage provide the perfect backdrop for a play of this vintage. The choreography, which distributes the action over several different locations and levels, sustains the audience's attention, turning the playwright's flouting of the era's "unity of place" rule into an asset. Soliloquies from the ledges of the room's high-set windows, for example, make good use of the unusual features of the library. The audience...
Neither does he answer questions very often. In the manner of U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden, whose players frequently needed postgraduate work in smiling, Thompson has sheltered his star from the public and press. "I'm not going to make Patrick talk to someone if he doesn't want to," Thompson says, "and usually he doesn't want to." Though just a few words from Ewing might lower the banners, Thompson wonders, "Should it be up to him? We've received letters from people trying to rationalize the abuse, to justify it. 'He should get used...
...special effects are respectable. In the movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was chased across a cornfield by a cropduster. In the law school parody, Thornbook plays a video game called "Cropduster" which seizes his leg and starts to spit out real bullets that convincingly explode against a wooden backdrop. There is even a short kickline. And where else can you get three hours with two dozen lawyers for only four bucks...
Explaining that he had only a folding case full of cards, he fished it out. Grabbing at the case, the boy looked nervous for the first time. After a lightning search, he tossed it toward a green wooden planter near the hotel entryway. In doing so, he let fall a single dollar bill. Caught by a little twist of wind, it skittered an inch or two across the sidewalk...
...stunned France. BARBIE: THE GHOSTS RETURN, read the headline of Le Quotidien de Paris. An equally macabre banner was printed by Le Figaro: THE DEVILS EXHUMED. Even before Barbie's arrival in Lyon, relatives of some of his victims began to gather in front of the heavy green wooden doors of Montluc in silent vigil. "I just want to get a look at his face," said a woman who survived Dachau. In the end, there was nothing to see. Closely guarded by French security agents, the prisoner flashed I past in a blue armored police...