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...received a different treatment. The script was tampered with. New scenes were added, old dialogue was cut. Names and settings were Americanized, and pop music was introduced. The flavor of Ionesco's work was lost. Director Tom O'Horgan transformed Ionesco's forceful drama of the Absurd into a banal comedy...
...physical sciences, fine and folk arts. It also recounts history that Thompson finds "relevant to today." The magazine sometimes seems a cross between American Heritage and the National Geographic, but its articles also frequently appear more topical and better written. Occasionally Thompson runs a piece that borders on the banal; last month's attempt to describe life astride an earthquake fault in California was conveyed in words and pictures as wooden as the fatalism of the town's residents. By contrast, a report on the good life in Sweden's prisons documents in taut style that country...
...ultimate criticism of Last Rights is that it does not do justice to the complexity of death. The author's problem-solving approach deserves credit for compassion, but in its obsession with reducing the pain, it almost succeeds in making death banal...
With his complete cooperation, 350 FBI agents from 33 field offices dug into his finances, his friendships, his correspondence-none of which produced any evidence of misconduct. At his confirmation hearings, Witness Ford came across as a banal speaker, but he also impressed his questioners with his openness, candor and competence in the glare of sudden attention. More, he did not hesitate to differ with Nixon's approach on several important matters. He urged the White House to produce all documents that would be necessary to clear the President. When asked what he would do if, like Prosecutor...
...armchair, Mercer held the kind of wry musical conversation on affairs of the heart that has made a minor art form of ballad singing and influenced singers from Billie Holiday to Barbra Streisand. Aware that it is her phrasing and timing rather than her voice that turns the most banal ballad into a timeless vignette, Mercer says cryptically, "It's all in the punctuation...