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...settles for slogging his way through a threadbare script. Writers Kimi Peck and Dalene Young do not know how to sustain their story beyond the initial exposition, and they are not much better at writing characters. The two teenagers' love interests (Armand Assante and Matt Dillon) are such bland hunks that the stars must play the romantic scenes in a near vacuum. Most of the campers are stereotypes out of Meatballs and even lesser kiddies' fictions...
...circle is really a triangle. By far the most engaging side of it is Jessica, played by Karen Allen, a young actress with a pretty, open face and a straightshooting manner that is extraordinarily winning. She is bright, wry, self-amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist...
Right from the start, Dali was a glacial opportunist with weak powers of formal invention. He was also precocious and adroit, and so, as one might expect, his early work is an anthology of secondhand manners. He begins as a late-Picasso cubist, turning out bland art deco still lifes that contain a few premonitions of his later imagery; the lank, droopy fish in Moonlit Still Life, 1927, for example, predicts the flaccidity that was to appear in his soft watches and piano lids. But he did not find a style until he came to Paris and met the surrealists...
...works selected are eccentric and imaginative. They progress far beyond the bland walls done by the government-sponsored WPA artists in the 1930s. Each represents the artist's concern for integrating art into the subway environment. As the organizers of the project point out, few places could provide more problems for artists than crowded subway stations...
...Carter we knew in 1976 worked tirelessly to create this image, and with surprising speed, Bush has shed his upper-class prep school heritage and established the same bland, folksy reputation. Time described him recently as "likeable, decent, a fine...