Bialystock is a sort of frenzied Groucho Marx (complete with asides to the audience) inflated to Falstaffian dimensions.
But those who arrive starving may find themselves fidgeting impatiently during Mr. Boerger's leisurely menu recitation -- complete with asides on French and German history and factoids of middling interest: "Did you know that humans retain only 10percentt of what they are told?" he quips every time he prepares to answer questions before taking an order.
Pioneer Girl offers more history and less fiction: it is presented as Wilder first wrote it, complete with asides to her daughter, no section breaks, and spelling mistakes (an ironic aspect for readers who remember the novels' emphasis on Laura's spelling bee triumphs).
The 1990s BBC series on which the show is based – adapted by Andrew Davies from Michael Dobbs's novels – always had a Shakespearean vibe, complete with villainous asides to audience.
But since these are actual lectures, recorded in a hall on the Berkeley campus in 2006, the videos are also complete with sliding chalkboards, asides about graduate student instructors, complaints about missing AV cables and, at one point, a graphic description of the professor's forthcoming eye surgery.
But the conversational style was deceptive: the Letter was meticulously plotted, complete with the pauses and asides which made it sound so natural.
But the relaxed and conversational style was deceptive: the Letter was meticulously plotted, complete with the pauses and asides which made it sound so natural.
You see, if your biography reads like an oppo guy's wet dream, complete with rape fantasies, unfortunate asides about child genitalia, a communist honeymoon, lots of quack medicine and even bizarre statements about fluoride, you will never convince delegates that you are so electable that they should disregard the decision of the voters.
apartments in vitrine buildings with dedicated bicycle storage, where each unit comes complete with a spare office set aside for each couple's eventual parturition?), I'd taken to walking at night.
-- complete with a number of bitter comic asides about the relegation of theater to the cultural fringe.
The Boyarsky Zal, the hotel's expensive Russian restaurant, complete with stuffed bear is getting better but, then again, aside from caviar there is not much one can expect from Russian cuisine.
