Word: damndest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FEAR NOT, actors, for where there are no characters to speak of, you have done your damndest...I reckon. Marc T. Johnson, although he struggles through the opening, improves in the course of the evening. If Johnson has made too much of a two-dimensional character (why are you in love with Barbara Allen?), it is not his fault. Kate Silverman as Barbara Allen does yeoman's service to an unimaginative role. If the scene in the bedroom after she has given birth to a witch is overdone, she's not to blame...
...with Lemmon, and it's not obvious, because he looks extremely relaxed onstage, devoid of mannerisms, economical in his gestures, and highly expressive in his voice. He's playing a breezy juvenile again, with all that maturity and pained awareness forced under the surface, and though he does his damndest to keep the trembling from showing--until it all comes gushing out in the final scene--you can feel the subliminal tension beneath the happy-go-luckiness. I've never seen a Lemmon performance with an edge this sharp; when he is in control, it is very great acting...
...mouth lily-livers made up their own myths as they went along. Grey, the weazy sycophant behind Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, certainly found his modern counter-parts in the New York film critics crowd, a bunch that seems to want to "Altmanify" the world, and did their damndest to verbally contort this pleasant but rambling work into a masterpiece...
...performance at the 500 was Bob Dole at his best: trying gallantly to cope with an awkward situation, kidding himself in the process, and doing his damndest to win support for Ford and the Republican ticket. As the vice-presidential candidate, Senator Dole sees his role in the campaign as that of "the lead dog," seeking new and promising territory for the G.O.P. He also has the job of carrying the fight to the Democrats, at least early in the campaign, while the President follows the strategy of staying put in the White House and acting "presidential...
Providence College has been doing its damndest to end that string in the past week, but has only managed to come up with a 4-4 tie last Wednesday and a wild 5-6 loss to the Crimson Saturday in Watson Rink...