Word: comically
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...albums capture the qualities that make her recitals sellout events. Bartoli grabs the audience. She sings with her eyes too. In Rossini, who has lavish comic zest, she courts the phrases and the audience as well. She displays, as Levine says, "an exceptional instrument, personality, grasp of the music and the text and, most of all, the ability to communicate all this...
...Judy Slattum (Chronicle; hardcover, $29.95; paperback, $18.95). According to the Balinese, their religion is monotheistic; but their God "takes as many forms as the sun has rays." The most dramatic of those forms are here, along with scores of other stark, comic or beautiful masks. Each is exquisitely carved; all express the yearning of an ancient and still dynamic culture...
Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...
...Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...
...that is more a criticism of the direction than the acting. The acting is forceful and impressive throughout; but it is directed toward the comic aspect of the play, losing much of its significance in the long run. The production is consistently funny, but this is a simplistic interpretation of the play...