Word: chipper
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...justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes - of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film...
Director Gordon Davidson gives the play a bristling, relentless staging, with full awareness of the comic possibilities in Dick Cheney's glum realism and Donald Rumsfeld's chipper heedlessness--and of the shadowy hints of tragedy in Colin Powell's ambiguous role. Stuff Happens may be overlong, but it is often very good theater--especially when it is, as it were, on the record, re-creating the known absurdities (and apparent lies) of Establishment figures enabling a mysteriously driven leader. Power, in this play, does not exactly corrupt, but it does render people giddy with their essentially unchallenged ability...
Hendricks seems altogether too chipper to be the brunt of controversy, but her chief extracurricular has seen its share of it on Harvard’s campus...
Crowe's Braddock is similarly genuine-a winning blend of simplicity, stubbornness and working-class charm. Renée Zellweger makes do-good times or bad-burying her fears under a soft-spoken feistiness. And Paul Giamatti as Braddock's trainer-manager is a revelation. He's a chipper, wised-up guy who gets Braddock his comeback fight, then guides his rise to the championship bout with Max Baer, played with a menacing charm and sadism by Craig Bierko...
...famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic...