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...going nowhere; Wood's view of moviedom--war as a ribald chaos prevents the play from establishing any dramatic focus or momentum, and the act lapses into a number of extraneous routines. It remains a wild burlesque with some high points, some low points, and a lot of aimless running...
Psychic gelatin is the main ingredient of Judith Rascoe's Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows. An aimless American woman uses the London flat of a traveling journalist and begins to feel his presence. She wears his bathrobe, reads his mail and manuscripts, talks cryptically to his friends on the phone. The journalist returns to find he is part of a strange relationship and to make the story's point: "One wants to be something, but what is there to be? Now I wish I were an American, now that's something to be! Without a passport...
...developed character; she often serves as a sounding board for Mel. Nevertheless, McPhee maintains a reasoned voice. Not surprisingly, when Edna finds a job after Mel has lost his, she also assumes his original neurotic qualities. Act Two's opening marvelously reveals this switch as Simon contrasts Mel's aimless wandering with Edna's verbal rambling. They also tend to philosophize; in the course of the play they wonder anxiously about their existence. To Edna's assertion that you either live with life's problems or get out, Mel replies that human beings have the right to protest...
...Terriers maintained momentum as the Crimson could not control the puck and managed only aimless clearing passes to center ice. B.U.'s first line clicked three minutes later when Jeffy Kowels beat Tate with a 15-foot wrist shot into the upper right hand corner of the twines...
Like the music, the story is vague, aimless, and often downright boring. None of the issues in Jonah's life takes on much significance. Nothing can be moving in a film where the dialogue proceeds on stilts...