Word: detachedness
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Other segments demonstrate the highly developed technique of the gross-out, featuring copious vomit, blood, genitals, and disembodied organs ("Can we have your liver, then?") They mesh oddly with the more detached, sardonic skits which are this film's major departure from previous technique. The knack for inspired nonsense remains...
The country house is 54 "cottages," the first 38 of which were opened in 1942. Actually, these are not detached cottages but one-room-with-bath flats, tiny garden apartments. When health fails, the resident of a cottage usually moves into the "lodge," which accommodates 62 people in "suites" that...
Aside from Tom's wanderings through the town early in the movie. That Championship Season could have been filmed on the stage. The few scenes in Scranton depict empty street settings whose houses look like backdrops. The limited settings suit writer director Miller well, as does the almost detached underrating...
And all the external characters complement Dorsey, Michaels, and Kimberly enabling the other actors to perform superbly Teri Garr as Dorsey's spacey girl friend is consistently funny as she tries to hold onto Dorsey as a lover and an acting coach. Her wide eyed facial expressions belie her confusions...
"The characters took the bit in their teeth; all at once they became detached from the flat paper, they turned their backs on me and walked off bodily." The speaker is Robert Louis Stevenson; the story is Kidnapped (Scribners; $17.95). As young David Balfour seeks his rightful inheritance in the...