Word: ardors
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...seem to have pushed her actors very much. Davidson and Kaye had learned their lines but were not living as their characters. At one crucial point in Act Three, Carol challenges John, "Do you hold yourself innocent of the charge of sexual exploitativeness?" Kaye bellowed the words with ardor, but as Davidson answered, her face and body went totally slack: her fists emptied, her brow unfurrowed, her posture slumped. She seemed to miss that rage exists in Carol's being, not in her words. The desperation, the wounded fury that motivate that kind of indictment, vanished as soon...
...these familiar Italian comic figures but also of his own star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville for the Nixon years, he stared moonily into the camera, then yanked off his toupee, revealing a few vagrant strands of hair. The ardor, the bedroom voice, the coiffure--it's all pretend, see? Acting...
Named to the post by George Bush in 1990, Kessler inherited an agency understaffed and demoralized after the antiregulatory ardor of the Reagan years. Within months the new commissioner flexed some muscle. He ordered thousands of gallons of orange juice seized from grocery shelves because they were labeled "fresh" but made from concentrate. This was a bold, some said outrageous, move; the difference between fresh and concentrated orange juice is not life-threatening, so why the strong-arm tactics? But everyone involved in the manufacture of the annual $1 trillion worth of products subject to FDA approval got the message...
...performance that makes the movie, Watson is as dominating as Falconetti was playing Joan of Arc. Watson works her eyes and lips coquettishly, tirelessly, with an ardor rarely seen since Lillian Gish and the other white roses of the silents. She goes pop-eyed with awe at her beau's manhood; every word she speaks is an open-mouthed kiss. She acts volcanically, as any heart does when it pumps with love. She is pure emotion, naked, shameless, unmediated by discretion. These aren't attitudes of passion; this is the genuine article, take it or leave it. Even with...
Meek, a daughter of sharecroppers and a granddaughter of slaves, ignited a small fire storm when she used a one-minute speech to question the propriety of a Newt Gingrich book deal. Republicans had her remarks struck from the Congressional Record, but that hasn't quelled her ardor for the underdog, whom she continues to champion by promoting federal jobs programs...