Word: conceitedly
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...this new production, one critic commented: " Thin' and 'trivial' is what the critics said of this play when it first appeared. So it is. And so is Beethoven's Eighth Symphony." Coward takes all this without the pretense of surprise or the arrogance of conceit. He describes his modern popularity as "Dad's Renaissance." He has a collection of short stories that is selling briskly, and another half-written. "And they're doing a collected volume of my lyrics," he says with sculpted indifference. "I'm embarrassed to report that that looks like...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...being wise. When Woodward announces that she has preserved her beauty as a sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright father...
...Clov, Nagg, and Nell (the last two spend the entire evening in barrels) perform against a backdrop of webbed string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes the collapse of blind Hamm's strange world. The cause of the disaster, we gradually understand, is Hamm's conceit. He is, as his name suggests, the abstraction of Actor whose solipsism has reduced his world to a shelter-like setting of old age (his barreled parents, Nagg and Nell) and crippled youth (Clov, who limps...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for the first surrealist camping trip in history-a hilarious conceit by one of the U.S.'s "new cinema" directors, Adolfas Mekas, who keeps his cast racing from pratfall to parody...