Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the dramatic dimension could have profited from from a generous dose of hamming-up. Though Gilbert does not provide any really smashing leads in the script (he tends to be rather too egalitarian with character development in this one), more of the players should have cut loose and been...
But Weldon is more interested in cleverness than character. Her gabby narrator, a woman in the Wexfords' social circle, buckets along, throwing motivation and consistency to the winds in favor of little epigrams and bitchy asides ("She looked like a Christmas cracker with no present inside"). Weldon even produced this...
Joe Turner, Wilson's third major work, is a sprawling ensemble piece, full of grace notes and epiphanies. It takes place in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911 where the tenants are mostly drifters in work and love: they act as aimless as if newly freed, though they are much too...
Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, a Dalton supporter, said the tape "doesn't strike me as out of character for Professor Nesson."
Other choices seemed to come from outer space. Comic actors traditionally fail even to be nominated, much less to win, yet the Academy put up Anne Ramsey of Throw Momma From the Train, who played a character so devoid of redeeming human qualities that she was more disgusting than funny...