Word: cavorting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching a more or less fully clothed couple cavort around a large bed for upwards of two hours has never been my idea of fully satisfying evening, but Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn manage to turn this rather barren situation into an enjoyable comedy in The Fourposter. In fact Miss Tandy and Mr. Cronyn are so engaging that one forgets they are involved in what is commonly called "a theatrical tour de force"; aside from the dominantly large fourposter bed which occupies most of the set there is nothing else which remotely resembles a dramatics personae...
...cook a meal that will kill him. Dead in a jiffy, he turns ghost, is joined by the shades of an Indian maiden, a Southern belle and a concert pianist. For two more acts, while the flesh & blood housemaid and doctor amble towards the altar, the four spirits aimlessly cavort about the stage...
...Weird Sisters as has ever been devised. The witches go through enough earthy comedy to preclude them from being "Fates," while they appear so often in such strange places as to make it impossible to believe that they are the mere psychological manifestations of Macbeth's character. They cavort with the drunken porter, dive into secret trap-doors in the stage, finish the play with an incantation which was never written by Shakespeare (or if it was, is ordinarily wisely omitted), and generally make such a nuisance of themselves as to confuse the main character study. Marre has also seen...
...includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
Adrian's Africa is as well-groomed and chic as an Adrian dress collection. Under pastel skies, orderly Daliesque vistas stretch away toward infinity. Stilt-limbed natives cavort decoratively with zebras and elephants, or sit among delicate foliage, holding snakes that have skins like fashionable dress prints...