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...managed to minimize the inevitable awkwardness of his visit to President Gerald Ford, who was still smarting from the first electoral defeat of his career. While waiting for his guest at the south portico of the White House, Ford stood unsmiling and he did not indulge in his customary banter with the press. But Carter eased the tension by kissing Betty Ford warmly on the cheek. Seated on apricot damask wing chairs in front of the fireplace for an hour, the two men discussed the nation's problems, including the possibility of Carter's meeting with world leaders...
...emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems to stem from his sensitivity to other people's sadness. These actors use each other deftly--dodging, fondling, intercepting and abusing one another's banter and bodies. The only remaining character, the Indian, functions as a mere punching bag, a prop that's hardly more human than the bus stop sign. His two-dimensionality is another flaw on the playwright's part, and about all Suchecki (who acts as well as directs...
...opening night nervousness, but it appears that in the pacing of the play, Thompson again is seeking an inappropriate mood. Miller provides some fine telling moments which are worthy of pauses, but the bulk of the play must be quick-paced. The dialogue is, after all, essentially locker room banter; under Thompson's direction it is transmuted into nervous chatter at a dull cocktail party...
Author Honor Tracy calls it "double-speak, double-think"-the typically Irish form of banter that says one thing and means another. It has helped produce a race of verbally agile writers, politicians and pub crawlers. If McGill University Psychiatrist H.B.M. Murphy is correct, it is also producing a high rate of schizophrenia...
...movie with one wonderful centerpiece. The first main problem is that Thomas McGuane's celebrated writing is stinko. You can see almost every line spoken on the written page as soon as it's said; it doesn't look so good there either. The speeches are bloated, the cowboy banter is self-conscious, the themes muddy. Next big trouble comes when you begin to feel that the film was slapped together in about 62 hours. Those who love Nicholson will walk away angry because the middle-aged rebel has been strait-jacketed and glucosized into some lousy love story...