Word: discomfort
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...some, the film will appear the finely crafted comedy of an old master. And certainly there is no shortage of laughs. But the humor in Hannah and Her Sisters functions the same way that humor does in life; it cushions us in situations of discomfort...
...fills and sips from cup after cup until he is surrounded by soiled china, then passes tea and edibles to each member of his family while every guest sits forlorn. Of the outsiders, sad-faced Charles Kimbrough and crack- voiced Deborah Rush are hilarious as strangers shriveling in discomfort at the effort of making small talk with the loony Blisses and each other...
...Chazov. Reason: in 1973 Chazov, along with 24 other members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, signed a letter against Sakharov that the protesters say initiated the campaign of persecution against him. An embarrassed Nobel Committee admitted that it had not been aware of the letter and expressed its "discomfort" at the news. Chazov professed not to understand the fuss. "I'm from Gorky," he said of the city where Sakharov has been exiled since 1980. "It's a nice town...
...successful aspect of Jagged Edge is the rigor with which it keeps us guessing. We are manipulated throughout the film in such a way that our uncertainty is kept tantalized until, literally, the last few seconds of the last scene. It is this reliance on mental, rather than physical, discomfort that allies Jagged Edge more closely with Hitchcock than with Halloween...
Wherever I go, it follows me, like a piece of bubble gum stuck to my heel, bringing humiliation and discomfort with...