Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This film isn't totally without redemption, though--the soundtrack is one of the rare bright spots. Adding groups such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket was the movie's only stroke of genius. Obviously it was meant to attract a group of money-spending teenagers, even though the smartest of them will spend their money on the soundtrack and stay away from the theater...
...words to that effect. Alas, brilliance ends with Saddam's bright idea. Even by the middling standards of pop novelists, Archer's prose is plodding and mechanical. Scenery creaks as the Washington set is wheeled out of the way and the Paris or Baghdad set is trundled in from the wings. Now and then a stagehand is visible. Characters speak lines (it seems to the reader) without force or emphasis, as if reading from scripts at a play's first run-through...
...this morning she sat nursing an iced tea and talking with several aides for a couple of hours, her fair skin well covered in a sea-green cotton skirt and top, and she then called over six lunching reporters. Under the bright Hawaiian sun, waves lapping a few yards away, she began discussing the single- payer health care system, or the Canadian Plan, as it is sometimes known -- the more fully centralized approach favored by many liberals. Mrs. Clinton criticized it, and promoted the hybrid scheme that she said would finally be announced in the fall. "There...
Almost everything about this movie feels like a first draft -- unfelt, unformed, unfinished. And it's not entirely Singleton's fault. As it so often does, Hollywood has mistaken bright promise for full-fledged talent, rushing in to indulge a young artist's self-indulgences, giving him everything he wants but withholding the one thing he needs most: firm but sympathetic challenges to his assumptions, an insistence on rethinking and rewriting until he knows what he wants to say and how to say it right...
...staging itself has a lot in common with the Broadway staging of Falsettos. Both employ many bright-colored modular building-block pieces on rollers that become tables and chairs and footstools and playthings. Choreographer Paul J. Tines smoothly incorporated props into his lively numbers, especially in songs like "How Marvin Eats His Breakfast" and "Whizzer Going Down...