Word: cleverisms
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...chases her all lover town, panting, running fingers through his hair and humming Jerry Lee Lewis' "Breathless." Kaprisky, fascinated but frightened, puts him off with teasing, heavily accented English ("You're dizguzting," she simpers). Gere, of course, proves irresistible, and tragedy ensues. "Breathless" was supposed to feel gritty and clever, but it was mostly just boring...
Director Robert J. Bouffier's production of Irma Vep features wonderful acting and clever bits of direction. It simple set, lighting and sound designs construct a perfectly eerie mood...
...made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...
...uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began to ape the swagger of a 15-year-old member of the Neighborhood Crips gang, whose street name was Insane. Among older kids, Kevin had noticed already, it was the "gangstas" who always had money, guns, girls...
...electronic one-stop shopping center, unifying all the different functions, . from cable to highly sophisticated interactive games, in one place with one set of controls. What has prevented such a box from being produced commercially is the wildly proliferating assortment of electronic gadgetry, all of it clever but not always compatible...