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...authors, each actor displaying the versatility necessary to make a revue of this sort work. All six have lovely voices and fine ears for comic nuance, but if anyone stands out among this talented group it is Sarah McCluskey, who has a sense of timing that can wring the maximum possible amount of laughter out of any joke...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The Only Way To Do It Right... | 12/6/1975 | See Source »

Morphos directs The Mousetrap so as to wring the maximum possible number of laughs from a fairly silly script. In the process, she necessarily subordinates the unwinding of the plot to the peculiarities of the characters who inhabit Agatha Christie's strangely isolated world...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Cheese Without Holes | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

...Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin work together so skillfully that Same Time, Next Year at its worst is never painful; their timing and intonation wring laughter from even the most hackneyed routines. And as their relationship grows, the play fortunately grows with them. The comedy becomes less superficial, more an organic product of the characters' grouping attempts to find stability in the midst of flux. Coupled with the increasing richness of the humor-and this play is in parts very, very funny-is an underlying layer of sadness, an awareness of the inevitability of change in a world where...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Next Time, Same Station | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic performances. Indeed, British Actor Alec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of Silence | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...temperament is such that I wring an advantage out of anything. The advantage I derive from your story about Amherst's decision on coeducation and what you attribute to me is that the accuracy of student reporting at Harvard is no higher than it is at Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUNNY SIDE | 11/27/1974 | See Source »

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