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...kind of hard to describe. I guess you could say I'm non-descript. Sort of gray all over. My eyes and teeth, too. I don't have much personality either. You probably won't want to spend much time with me, but that's okay. I'm used...
...descript double-knit vest and mute-grey suit, his shirt bulging conspicuously at the waistline, Filartiga looks more like the semi-retired family g.p., benevolent but dilapidated. Nearsighted bug eyes peered out of thick spectacles. His roly-poly, bumbling figure gives him the image of a jolly plump man, not one laden by the responsibilities of nursing 37,000 mestizos who depend on him alone for health care...
...moves through harvest and winter and spring with only a thin thread of plot, recounting every day events along with a few more important ones. The result is that you feel the lives of the people, instead of just seeing them. What at first were lumpy bodies with non-descript faces become as real to you as your roomate through Omni's brilliant creation. The work is all Omni who, besides directing, wrote and filmed Tree. The cast, non-professional, which may account for the subtlety and dignity with which the characters were portrayed. Not once was piety overdrawn...
Bill Roberts was promoted from a non-descript Lord to the pivotal part of Feste. He sings well indeed, although-unlike Mark Lamos last year--he has to fake his lute-playing. Ellen Tobie is a little less skillful than Lynn Redgrave as the disguised Viola, but Julienne Marie's countess Olivia is a bit more subtle than we had before...
Usually calm, orderly and above all non-descript, Canadian politics have suddenly been thrust into a volatile pre-election period that promises to realign Canada's traditional political balance. Faced with increasingly severe economic and political challenges, Canadian labor is beginning to forge tighter cooperative links with its old political ally, the New Democratic Party (NDP), as it prepares to deal with the increasing polarization of Canadian politics. But despite the severity of Canada's problems, the labor-NDP alliance is itself weak and encumbered with many difficulties...