Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After three letters, (one after "Pelican Brief", two after "The Client") I've gotten no response. I even know where he lives...
...Eclipse, the Beverly Hills restaurant of the moment, and no one dwells on Johnnie Cochran's troubled record as a husband. The double standard means a working mother not only has to worry that someone else will see her child take his first step while she is reading a brief but also that if she achieves success in a man's world, her child won't be there when she gets home...
Elaine May's Hotline is brief too, but with all its abusive, foul-mouthed yelling it feels long. Linda Lavin portrays a despairing prostitute who phones a suicide-prevention center, where she reaches an overconfident staff member (played, again deftly, by Becker). May places considerable demands on her actors. For one thing, she asks the drama to drag, literally: after swallowing handfuls of pills, Lavin crawls around her apartment, moaning wisecracks. For another, May has contrived a tale that, in a compressed space, moves from squalor to redemption. That the ending works as well as it does suggests that there...
Another user had an Internet date of sorts,brief courtship process and all. "I was onceinvited to the channel #woodswith anotherwoman," says a Harvard senior. "Even though it wasprobably a man posing as a woman. I thought it waskind of cute to be going off into the woodstogether." Who said there was no romance left inthe world...
...play's second focus, is acted only adequately by Kenneth Polite. The character's motivations are hard to decipher in any case, but Polite gives us little inisght into them; he is not particularly shrewd or winning or desperate at the times when he should be. In his brief turn as a street hustler in a flashback, Polite is unconvincing; rather than natural speech rhythms he produces a kind of forced grunt. He also seems uncomfortable with the overtly homosexual content of that and other scenes, further impairing the credibility of the character. As a result, we are far more...