Eventually, they had sex for the first time, and the whole act was amusingly devoid of cliche: no "sexy" camera angles, no golden light, no instant nirvana.
Wyden has partnered with Senators Rand Paul, Tammy Baldwin, Steve Daines, and Jon Tester on the Act (which is amusingly abbreviated as the SMH Act).
There's a clever bit of directing by Christopher Ashley, who segues smoothly from "That's How We Relax," an undistinguished song about yuppies in a hurry, into "No Hurry at All," a bluesy solo powerfully sung and amusingly acted by Pamela Isaacs; she plays a Starbucks counter girl who keeps the yuppies waiting.
This amusingly arcane act of home-keeping was known to the holiest of holies, Nancy Lancaster and John Fowler, and has been passed down to every one of their approximately 1.237 million disciples.
Also captured on film and published yesterday was an amusingly British act of defiance - a pyjama-clad householder blocking dustmen into his road by standing in their path, after they had declined to empty his neighbour's bin of five pebbles.
In the distant year of 1974, when "Bad Habits" made its hilarious New York debut, the characters' vices of chain smoking, high-cholesterol gluttony, martini guzzling and sexual adventurism were regarded more as amusingly naughty acts of rebellion, however self-destructive, than as one-way tickets to the grave.
The choreography gets stronger as the show goes on (especially the second act opener) and the costumes amusingly silly (like the aggressive holiday sweaters in the finale).
The amusingly named Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 promises to ensnare hundreds of thousands of additional taxpayers in the recordkeeping trap.
Happily, the book by Oscar Hammerstein II has its pluses, like the Act One closer where the King amusingly puts Anna to the test over his rule about never letting her head be above his.
(Paul Tazewell's peasant costumes are in the same unassuming mode). The pleasures add up quickly in the first act as Hadary's quick-tongued Tevye amusingly questions God, so neatly summed up in "If I Were a Rich Man," and guides us through his poor shtetl, Anatevka.
(The scene amusingly resembles Winston Smith's similarly gruesome act of neighbourliness in 1984, and, with the banality and self-loathing in each, the comparison is not entirely arbitrary).
