Vaudevillian (續：雜耍 精明 單字大集合)

vaudevillian



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n. (名詞 noun)



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–noun 

1. Also, vaude·vil·list. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville. 

–adjective

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of vaudeville.  





　 

This is the dynamic at the heart of what those close to him affectionately refer to as "Wes’s world," which resembles a vaudevillian family by way of Evelyn Waugh. 





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pantomime 

mime

antics

buffoon & charlatan

Because only I who is antique I'm nothing in their eyes. I've no true friend Because I just their buffoon. Then, together with you, afraid too. They will say, your friend is just a buffoon with dogs all day.

mountebank

a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.

Mountebank director Richard Kelly’s latest is based on a [trite], [shopworn] premise that many will be familiar with either from Richard Matheson’s original short story,

stooge

vaudevillian

which resembles a vaudevillian [family] by way of Evelyn Waugh. 

Parts of the script are [un]necessarily vaudevillian and [rehash] jokes that were already quite old by 1969,

As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville.


carney

The crazed carnival atmosphere [segues] into a [carney] casino, Bazooko's Circus, where a barker (Penn Jillette) [spiels] amid aerialists, clowns, and a rotating [carousel] bar.



shtick

If you don’t want to know too much then skip this part, but it’s a pretty crazy tale... and what I’m taking away from this is that it could be a rare chance for Black to break out of the [mugging] shtick in which he’s been [locked] for so long.

juggle

juggle with [balls] [figures]

Each of them is attempting to juggle [two] sets of values.

Still, Barcelona is a far more visually [assured] film than the director's debut, and that as well as his [deft] juggling of light and serious themes would be put to even better use in Stillman's next film, The Last Days of Disco. 

It doesn't [juggle] them for melodrama, but looks inside.

she [juggles] blackmail, murder, bank loans, picking up the kids after school--it's as if the ordinary tasks keep her sane enough to [deal] with the dangers that surround her.

Cora, I stole the money. I juggled the books and took $3,000. You? You stole?




conundrum 

writer/director Richard Kelly has returned to address all remaining space-time [conundrums], and just about anything else you can imagine,

There are many mysteries in "Bee Season," but the greatest [conundrum] has to be: in what parallel universe would Binoche marry Gere?

Right at Your Door is best when exploring [logistical] conundrums, such as Brad and his handyman instinctively duct-taping themselves inside the home, 

tantrum 

Fray 

witticism

pun

The title 10 Things I Hate About You just begs for groan-[inducing] [puns] about its film's quality. 

Half the time the dialogue is distractingly modern, the other half it's so [overstuffed] with rapid-fire period speak that by the time you've sorted out all the allusions, puns, and double-negatives, you've missed the next three lines in the script.

bunkum

insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents

Daddy says the Bible is a load of bunkum.

hokum

elements of low comedy introduced into a play, novelthe, for the laughs they may bring

Barely [releasable] hokum, stuffed with [cheesy] blah-blah

malarkey

Informal. speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress, bunkum

He left and got in his car. Well, uh-- he says that he went to the police station all bloodied-up and they threw him out, which is malarkey. I mean, but it's part of his style of writing.



carny

a person employed by a carnival

Hey, why don't you call one of your old friends? I heard Danny's back in town. Or Pat? And tell them I work as a carny? No, thank you.


divertissement

You can have any car you want, but that ugly black horror is an eyesore and an embarrassment. Really, Harold, it is time you settled down and stopped [flitting] away your talents on these amateur theatrics, these little divertissements, no matter how psychologically purging they may be.【法】兩幕間之餘興表演,消遣

somersault

This is real nice. Yeah. Makes me want to do somersaults. Well, why don't you? I'd feel stupid. Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass of themselves.








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repartee 

Still constant, however, are the suffocating family atmosphere and [tone]-deaf repartee.

The effortless repartee between Amelia (Catherine Keener) and Laura (Anne Heche) carries the smartt script, which charts the pitfalls of single-life existence in the big city with the best of them.

riposte

a brilliant riposte [to] an insult. 

As something of a riposte [to] the glut of Bible-based horrors of the '70s,

This film largely stemmed from a riposte by Woody Allen [to] a hostile article written about him by novelist Joan Didion, and to the Academy's seeming indifference to his "serious" film Interiors (1978). This explains the film's relatively sour mood towards the critical community and indeed the movie-going public.

gumption 

Bernadette Lafont is permitted a bit of [gumption] when she's jealous—an emotion that turns Léaud on.

shrewd 

sagacious

having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense, shrewd

But I think I've got a secret, a saucy little secret. The [solipsistic], sagacious little secret is just, you got, you just gotta bang your fuckin' head against 'em.

cagey 

astute 

Still, Blanchett is [astute] enough to mix and match her projects.

Mary Zophres' costumes and an [astutely] selected combo of Southern California locations to create a superior post-war, small-town period feel.

Veteran of the delightful documentary Spellbound, Blitz proves he's a lot more [astute] at observing real children than writing fake ones. 

Greg Gardiner's almost glowing black-and-white images of the already [parched] Arizona locations and blank hospital settings create a [bleached], semi-hallucinatory look that is [astutely] linked to the subject matter.



acumen

of mind, shrewd judgment

proof of her [business] acumen and romantic imagination

Her [financial] acumen will be a great help. 

acuity

thought or senses

His [visual] acuity was remarkable. 

this very New York tale is old-fashioned in good ways that have to do with solid storytelling, craftsmanship and [emotional] acuity.

But it's Bebe Neuwirth's wicked [cackle] and Broadway-honed [comic] acuity that give the film its friction and its warm sense of abandon.

Reichardt and cinematographer Sam Levy capture the [decay] of rail yards and industrial malls with her typical [visual] acuity, and interesting characters [populate] the margins of the film.

A product of its times, Swoon transcends them with careful craftsmanship and [emotional] acuity.

acuteness

quickness in both sense and mind

pain

The acuteness of the [toothache] drove all thought from my mind. 

anesthesia

blase

indifferent to or bored with life, unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures

Dad Don is pretty [blase] about it,

pethidine

I think I'd gave her 100 kilograms of pethidine.



sleight

Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand

Brit filmmaker Sean Ellis reveals a gift for formal sleight-of-hand that's ultimately more dazzling than his patly amusing script.

facile

But where Wong [facilely] filtered the alien terrain of Soho and Reno through his own distinctive lens

cushy

The beauties in this supermarket readily identify pic as a supremely [cushy] male fantasy. 



arduous

Romanian author Mircea Eliade's [tome] detailing the [arduous] journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon.

That message may not always be a [re]assuring one, but the artistry with which it's delivered [ensures] that we're right there with the characters on every step of their arduous [journey]. 





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