"It's not fair to ask them to play in the style of 80 years ago," he said.
Batista has made no secret of the fact he intends to get the best out of Lionel Messi by setting up his team to play in the style of Barcelona.
Floyd Dell, one of her lovers, recruited her talents as an actor, dramatist, and director for the Provincetown Players, where her greatest triumph was "Aria da Capo" (1919), an antiwar play in the style of the commedia dell'arte, with Norma Millay in the starring role.
Satirically dressed in formal wear that brings to mind Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Borg and Joey Rizzolo perform their play in the style of a vaudevillian double act, describing the contents of two random Bronx storage lockers that they bought at public auction.
Show: 'As the Boat Approaches' Artist: Kristen Kinstrey Synopsis (from Fringenyc.org): "A new play in the style of long-form improv comedy featuring warriors, sailors, dinosaurs, the creation of the universe, and two guys mysteriously stranded on a tiny desert island.
On the field it's war, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, in a "crude morality play in the style of Mr. Stone's 'Wall Street.' " The Next Best Thing Using the words "It's me, not you," a lot of men have begged out of relationships with Abbie Reynolds Madonnaa), a Los Angeles yoga teacher.
And the truth shall set you free!" The organist played in the style of the skating rink, and the people sang their hymns in registers shrill and adamant.
Towards the end, however, things picked up with a loud, catalytic burst of Down the Road Apiece, played in the style of Chuck Berry.
I was also puzzled as to why the emperor's time-keeper is played in the style of a hip-swinging Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?
Concertgoers will sit in the historic American Wing, hear music of the second quarter of the 19th century, performed on 19th-century instruments played in the style of the 19th century.
Mr. Gao made a mark in the Beijing theater scene in the early 1980's with his absurdist plays, in the style of Becket and Ionesco, and courted controversy with an essay attacking socialist realism in art.
