Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of them in the short term. The memorandum is, it seems, a revolutionary document. "The people," it pledges, "are determined to continue the process of building people's power in our communities, factories and schools regardless of the cost. The possibilities of freedom and democracy are no longer dim and distant. Our victory is certain...
...wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp. Ever clever, though, Jordan massages the viewer's sentimentality like Simone servicing a dim, fond client...
...staging of the film is also effective. In a clever scene that opens the movie, Prince plays at a dim cafe piano, seducing patrons with his eyes and music as Benton passes him notes urging him on. In another scene, Prince sits in the back of a car, silent and out of focus, waiting for Scott-Thomas to admit she loves...
...Reagan has turned out like nothing that his critics foretold, not the amiable dunce nor the dim-witted geriatric that they joked about, receding into befuddled twilight...
Nonetheless, Sweet Charity is no masterpiece. Neil Simon's book is more often predictable than funny, and the second act neither coheres nor makes much sense. Dorothy Fields' lyrics are much too witty to come from the dim characters. Cy Coleman's so-so score provides two rousing standards, which evoke Fosse's cleverest numbers: the sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability...