Word: zinging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game, the almost perfect fundamentals he brought every night and the shrewd sense of each game's tempo, which made him almost a coach on the floor. When Jordan was at his prime, it was common among some professional basketball people to joke about the Carolina program and to zing Dean Smith for, it was presumed, suppressing the greatness of Jordan's game during his college years. But the reverse was true. It has become obvious that Smith did not limit Jordan's game, but instead made it what it is. Smith and his assistants knew from the first time...
...Bouffier and Susan McConnell, in the central roles, begin a little flatly. In Shaw's wonderful opening scene, they seem to be merely reciting their lines, without really savoring them. But they soon warm to their work, so that the final two acts carry all or most of the zing Shaw wrote into them. This is owing more to McConnell, who makes a convincing transition from querulous selfconsciousness to defiant independence. Bouffier's a little too wooden-faced (a kind of Bob Dole for the stage), and doesn't quite tap into the semi-tragic nature of his character...
Unusual flavorings are gaining popularity. When water smoking, creative barbecuers add wine or herb seasonings to the water for some extra zing. For more twists connoisseurs mix specialty hardwood chips with the charcoal: buttonwood from the Florida Keys, for example, gives meat and fish a woody flavor less sweet than mesquite. "It's like picking out a wine," says Scott Fine, editor of On the Grill magazine. Nor is barbecuing limited to meat, fish and chicken anymore. Bobby Flay, restaurant owner and host of Lifetime's The Main Ingredient, likes to put corn bread on the grill, as well...
...performances also warranted a fine-tuning here and there. Friedland, for example, on Johnny's first visit to Frankie's apartment, walks toward every utensil, appliance and food product he needs. Burt-Kinderman, for her part, tends to forecast future jokes by speeding through her lines so Johnny can zing one off. Both of these tendencies felt a little overrehearsed, a problem in a play that already feels a little canned...
Thus the snowy Canadian winter passed in a zing. One unexpected treat for me was the arrival, shortly after myself, of veteran film star Lori Breckner, who had been my date for the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, and who played opposite me in the critically successful box-office dud Car Crash 500. ("Yes, Don, I know movies are young young young. But what do a bunch of brats in Glendale know about pain...