Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times-Bundy displays a solid understanding of Behan's work, but, constantly, he falters. He interweaves the different themes and sub-plots with careful grace, but a bit too meticulously. Bundy's self-conscious style gives The Hostage an inappropriate solemnity. The frequent wisecracking of Behan's characters-their defense against despair and such horrors of the Modern Age as the H. bomb-loses all its verve as the director has his actors take long. Thoughtful pauses between too many lines. He dilutes the strength of many of the songs by having them performed like dirges. When the company joins...
...many of his past performances, the seams show. There's a "stagey" quality to his limp, his wry grin, his extravagant gestures: one can see too clearly the thought behind every inflection, perhaps. McCue hoped to play upon Behan's theme of dramatic distance, to make the audience sharply conscious of the fact that they are in a theater viewing a performance. Unfortunately, his characterization only reflects the dull spontaneity of Bundy's directional style. McCue, as always, takes stronghold of the audience's interest, but he fails to excite...
Weinberger, 63, has an unpretentious old-shoe style that makes him seem comfortably self-effacing-a description seldom applied to the high-strung Haig. Cap enjoys the exercise of power but seems bemused by its trappings. When security-conscious West German officials sent a limousine to take him to a secluded wood for his daily three-mile run one morning, he gently protested, to no avail, that he preferred jogging the streets near his hotel in Bonn. Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike...
More women were granted tenure in the past two years than in the past decade, when female professors were first hired at Princeton, but Aaron Lemonick, dean of the faculty, said there has been "no conscious effort" to promote women this year...
Restrict the flow of Japanese cars [March 30]? Never. We Canadians and Americans should thank Japan for turning us into quality-conscious automobile buyers. To ask Japan to cut back is to tell us that we will have to settle for second best. Compete for my sense of value, Detroit, and you can win me back...