By Peter Schjeldahl Owens in her studio in Los Angeles: "How do you keep things moving along?" Serious but friendly, a woman who rarely jokes but readily laughs, the Los Angeles artist Laura Owens, forty-seven years old, was pleasantly dishevelled in mom attire: shirt, baggy shorts, sneakers, big glasses.
And he readily jokes about something as tame and un-rock star-like as being a dad.
Nor is the joke really on Shakespeare, whose language turns out to adapt so readily to shallow pop emotions.
The 19-year-old single amputee sprinter – Great Britain's real hope against South Africa's Oscar Pistorius in the men's T43-T44 100m – bounces in his seat, smiles readily, cracks jokes and generally appears to be having a marvellous time since his selection.
Newman laughs most readily when the joke is on his enduring failure to win America's heart.
He talks too quickly, mispronounces words, and has a weakness for self-referential jokes, at which he smirks readily, like a boy who knows that his mother approves.
She is a happy child and now a foil to the jokes that Mr. Brill, who is more readily known by the nickname Wildman, tells during his wild-food-gathering tours through the city's parks.
But it plays too readily into an antic, bad-girl take on feminist art that diminishes it and makes it a joke.
But ask them how they usher new players into their ranks, and they readily describe a tradition of practical jokes and organized roughhousing intended to disgrace, degrade and terrify.
This show didn't have any, but the handful of people in the audience on Wednesday laughed so readily I began to feel left out of an inside joke.
