Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
MOST OF ALL, though, the end of the strike means that we will not have to search long and far to find alternatives to baseball. Though I will certainly miss all the evenings I could have spent sitting around the cracker barrel talking about baseball instead of going to see the games, I am glad that I will not have to rely on a Rambo Film Festival at the Copley Place for my summertime entertainment...
...away can be quite moving. Embedded in the humor we find a barely suppressed fear: for Jack and Babette the reliance on machinery, drugs and quick answers spells an end to basic human dignity, and all they can think about is dying before they have really lived. And the Cracker-Jack Box prize, the incentive for late night page mongers is DeLillo's dialogue, especially between father and precocious son, or father and ditzy mother...
...solid business advantages, starting with time saving. Says Double Eagle President Ray Miller: "If a load of West Coast produce has to be East in three days, not three weeks, a husband and wife team with a sleeper can do the job." Lone drivers must either bunk up at cracker-box motels or slump over the wheel after the maximum ten-hour stretch allowed by federal regulation. Spelled by co-drivers, truckers sometimes sleep in their living quarters or just stand, walk around and ease white-line tension. "The better the equipment, the safer the ride," says Tom Phillips...
...production, with its breathtaking subway set by Douglas Stein, appears more than anything else a valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...