Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green breaks down the traditional audience/performer boundaries by involving everyone in a "workshoping Ophelia" wherein the crowd chants the various mantras of her id, ego and superego in preparation for her dramatic demise. If there is a prop to be used, Green's got it and is doing his damnedest to involve the audience members as well...
Basically, it's a Costnerian fantasy world. There's no gasoline, so everyone rides horses. There's no government, so Kevin gets to be a vigilante hero. There's no America east of the Rockies, so fuggedaboudit. And there are plenty of guns. I'm sure Costner tried his damnedest to work baseball into the story...
...endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack and his sideburns are trying their damnedest to impersonate...
...Brooks is but one painful example of talent going to waste: it's another case of good actors trying their damnedest with bad lines. Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Albert Brooks and Helen Mirren are all fine, subtle performers; here, they are relegated to stale, two-dimensional stereo-types. Lumet may as well have subtitles put in key scenes: "This man is evil, because all he cares about is money. This man is good, because he really cares about making people better...
...rough month ahead for those of us at Dartboard. Some of us will be up early tomorrow morning, doing our damnedest to prove we are skilled in analytic and logical reasoning on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Others will find themselves with hours of circle-filling-fun later this month at the GRE's. But the one thing we all have in common is that none of us will be taking these tests at Harvard. That's right, well before eight o'clock in the morning we'll be heading off to other local colleges-UMass Boston, Northeastern...