Word: actionlessness
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...Kennedy did during his Presidency; the issue seems to be the way he did it. Sorensen's Kennedy is a man of pragmatic instinct, distrustful of liberal intellectuals, his chief preoccupation domestic politics and the domestic economy. He liked football; he liked Casablanca and Spartacus-- "nothing too arty or actionless." Schlesinger's Kennedy is instinctively broadminded; he actually opposed the Bay of Pigs, Schlesinger thinks. Where Sorensen never mentions Adlai Stevenson's name without irritation, Schlesinger sees in Kennedy a bit of an old Stevensonian. Though their personal relations were marred by "a slight tinge of mutual exasperation," Kennedy...
...cool water. There is also a square dance on horseback, trick riding, and two girls doing trick roping in semi-Bikini type costumes. These interludes do not leave a great amount of time available for events, and since there are over a hundred contestants, there are a lot of actionless days for the cowboys...
Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very interesting corpse dropped in the other...
Jack Oakie and Borden Dairy's glamour cow, Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...