Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carol Hall's basic score. On the other hand, as is generally the case when shows are restaged in a realistic movie context, the original numbers do not work either. They come out of nowhere and blow, rootless as tumbleweeds, across the Texas landscape. The writing is aimless when it is not offensive, and the picture appears to have been agglomerated rather than directed. Burning's achievement in the midst of all this incompetence is not just a high point; it is something like a miracle. - By Richard Schickel
...When he flew, we flew. When his father met him at the airport and told him to go to the Y.M.C.A., and when he took the bus, we took the bus." They even tried to calculate how much all this cost the rich drifter. To Lassiter, the janitor, the aimless meanderings indicated a mental defect. He argued: "Nobody, no matter how much money he has, would spend it like that. He pays a jet fare and stays a day. I can't see that." Countered Copelin: "Any time you can buy airplane tickets and go anywhere you want...
...eyed corpses hurtle toward the screen. A mangy dog sups at a coyote carcass. A deadly boomerang shears off fingertips, creases a man's skull. That's entertainment? As a series of isolated incidents, no; our nerve endings have long since been numbed by the movies' aimless carnage. But as garishly precise daubs in George Miller's apocalyptic fresco, they add up to exhilarating entertainment-and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking...
...third character does not believe in anything. He has lost his belief in fairness through his aimless passage through life. Roger Gould's Skinner has the acquired cynicism of a man fighting an up-hill battle. Gould captures the role perfectly, embodying the character with a disarming insolence. His comic timing is marvelous...
...aimless dialogue does in Wanda June. Some lines are crisp--like when Ryan tells us that "educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch. Everything stops. "We laugh nervously as we wonder where the plot is taking us--and we discover the answer is nowhere. The world around Harold Ryan deteriorates as his wife, son, and friends leave him and he is left weaponless without his mind for his final battle with suitor Woodly. We watch Ryan struggle to salvage his own faith in himself. But, like Ryan, at the play...