Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressionism, and although it has no difficulty in accepting Kline's premises, it has grown vastly more critical of his output. O.K., the newcomers say, strolling from picture to picture, we all know he was a landmark, a titan, a pioneer. But did he paint good abstractions or bad ones...
...share in Southern California's explosive postwar growth but developed ominous symptoms of decay. Though downtown Los Angeles remained a stronghold for banking, finance, oil and insurance, jobs in other fields followed people to the suburbs. Vacancy rates soared in dingy old office buildings. Sleazy stores and bad restaurants proliferated. Forsaken by many retailers, streets that once bustled with affluent shoppers became a depressing arena for bums and beggars, vice and crime...
Director, writer, scene designer and onetime actor, Franco Zeffirelli talks and acts like a mountebank, but he is a man of considerable talent and great versatility. "I am," he declares grandly, "the flag-bearer of the crusade against boredom, bad taste and stupidity in the theater...
...lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally had documented proof of my origins. I told myself that it really wasn't so bad being a bastard now that I knew I was descended from one of the world's most celebrated bastards -Leonardo da Vinci...
...problem is that Saville took Christopher Plummer along on the trip. Plummer is simply not up to Oedipus. For one thing, he has a bad habit of punctuating his lines with portentous pauses that have no connection with either sense or cadence. A more serious failure is his foothills approach to the part-he neither climbs high enough at the beginning nor falls low enough at the end. Plummer as King of Thebes is arrogant rather than hubristic; his fate seems more like a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo...