Word: demeanor
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Schnittke's rise to prominence is a tribute to his artistic integrity. His slight frame, perilous health (he has suffered two strokes and a heart attack) and diffident demeanor mask a revolutionary sensibility. As an iconoclast in a country of enforced artistic conformity, Schnittke represented for many of his Soviet countrymen a kind of artistic glasnost long before Gorbachev made it permissible. Stylistically unpredictable and resolutely uncompromising -- there are no "Socialist Realist" elements in his music, no compositions celebrating factories at work or peasants at play -- Schnittke's music is fundamentally deconstructive. It uses the past as raw material...
...They are the two serious characters in a sea of overdramatized and not-so-sauve villians. They work well together in the action scenes that require shooting and keeping track of the money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland and the expression in her eyes show profound fixation--on the telepromptor. It is only in the sex scenes...
...players carried the production through with verve. Catherine deLima, playing the spirited Rosalinda, dominated the production with her dynamic voice and smirking facial expressions. Particularly charming was the duet in which deLima seduces Edward Upton (Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless compensated for want of volume...
...regular folk. They don't want to cause any trouble. Although carefully crafted, they certainly don't break the mold of characterization. Teddy plunges periodically into brooding funks stemming from the deep spring of childhood neglect and a broken family; otherwise, he reassures his wife with his deliberate, undaunted demeanor. Jane Louise gnaws rabbitlike at her anxieties, the classic neurotic New York...
Condemmed to the annoying stereotype of the neglected and nagging wife, Isabella Rosallini still manages to salvage the role to some extent with her beauty and permanently poignant demeanor. Rosie Perez draws out her role with hyper rawness, and provides a counterbalance to Bridge's brooding...