Although Mr. Jones mimics the language and boisterous style of British playwriting of the era, truly inspired humor is doled out in stingy doses in this labored and overlong play, the latest from Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 program.
There are even moments of inspired humor in "Cuzcatlan," most notably in the accounts of Jacinto's two brushes with death, once when struck by lightning and another when bitten by a rabid dog.
I'd like to know what the writer, who died in 1959, at the age of seventy, would have made of Gould's exquisite blend of impulsive, inspired, sardonic humor and insolent attitude — of professional bravado and intimate confusion.
I'd like to know what the writer, who died in 1959, at the age of seventy, would have made of Gould's exquisite blend of impulsive, inspired, sardonic humor and insolent attitude of professional bravado and intimate confusion.
When I think of my best teachers, like Juanita Trantina in the fifth grade, they didn't just teach us but also inspired us, humored us, tamed us and enchanted us.
The resulting raw sewage put it in the rarest of ship categories — that which inspires bathroom humor by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart.
She leaves behind countless friends who, like her family, were drawn and inspired by her humor, grace, wit and dignity.
He mentored hundreds of younger professionals, and his generous spirit, integrity and unique humor inspired colleagues around the world.
Her act quickly drew attention and she began writing columns that gave a wider forum to the debate inspired by her humor.
Her romantic misadventures led to at least four suicide attempts but inspired the bitter humor of her verse and short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker.
That school of humor inspired campaigns laced with benign sexual innuendo, Mr. Hegarty said, produced by the Bartle Bogle London and New York offices for Lynx and Axe, deodorant sprays sold by Unilever in Britain and the United States.
