Word: detachedness
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Serene. Instinctive. Visionary. Determined. Eternally optimistic. Such adjectives are regularly used to form a word picture of Ronald Reagan. They are all true, as far as they go. But each has a less sunny flip side, like a photographic negative of the bright, familiar image. Serene: intellectually $ passive. Instinctive: unreflective...
The majority of America's one million homeless are people who have, for one reason or another, become detached from the fabric of American society. They are the victims of alcohol and drug abuse, the mentally ill, the uneducated and the unskilled, all trying desperately to make some sort of...
THE BOOK BECOMES far more than a parody, however. Though the characters are never believable, they become increasingly intense and compelling. You never sympathize with Lou Ford, or even completely understand what's going on inside his head, but you're fascinated by his warped mind and morbidly curious about...
Kyle MacLachlan is outstanding as Jeffrey. With his paperboy face and barely noticeable earring, he meets and hurdles each awful rite of passage with marked confidence. Laura Dern makes for terrific chemistry with MacLachlan; she slow dances and sips Heineken like a runner-up Homecoming Queen and proclaims with detached...
Playwright Stephen Metcalfe (Strange Snow, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers) risks cartoonish farce in scenes between Emily and her detached, all- business father; meetings between Emily and her brittle, suicidal mother come close to soap opera. Metcalfe binds the play's kaleidoscopic moods with chatty monologues by the central character...