Word: appeals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worship and a competitive job market, you would think that a job that offered power, influence, name recognition, a salary of $136,700 a year and free mail would be a golden opportunity. But working in the most important legislative body in the world just doesn't have the appeal it once...
...glaring offensive. But it never finds its "zone." The movie seems unnecessarily forced and cautious. "Laugh at this!" it tells you. "Cry now!" it yells. In between these climactic urges for audience emotion, The Object of My Affection stomps all over thin ice. Though mindfully tries for fluffy appeal, it ends up cracking under the weight of its cautiousness...
...slightly sitcom-ish. The scenes don't particularly flow well (some parts scream for commercial breaks), and it jumps from melodrama to obvious comic relief without much attempt at subtlety. Hytner seems lost as to what genre the movie actually belongs in. Rare scenes echo with the light, schmaltzy appeal of a romantic comedy, some seem amateurish (reminiscent of high school plays), and others are bogged down in unnecessarily messy melodrama. The movie reeks of heavy editing; any momentum built in a scene is promptly lost in the next...
Well, he was an idiot anyway if he'd been expecting something conventional from the Ex. Last weekend's production, under director Ollie Lewis '00, sacrificed most of the appeal of the canonical in favor of a quirkily idiotic yet thoroughly entertaining reinterpretation. Under all the pageantry, music and the interpolated jokes, the viewers might not have been able to follow the plot, but they almost undoubtedly had a rollicking good time...
...newly launched legal appeal will take months, or even a year, to make it to the courtroom. But when it came to emotional appeal, Paula Jones didn't take long to deliver. "Despite the continuing personal strain on my family and me," a tear-streaked Jones told reporters Thursday, "in the end, I have not come this far to see the law let men who have done such things dodge their responsibility...