Word: downrightness
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...young detective, played by Tommy Lee Jones '69, helps Mars in her search and the two, fall in love rather suddenly and unexpectedly. The romance seems highly improbable and the love scenes are downright silly, as Dunaway always acts just a bit too shocked and desperate. Jones as the happy-go-lucky, rather moronic cop acts too juvenile, and is not at all believable. Jones played football at Harvard and I don't know how much acting he did, but he sure could use some acting lessons quick...
...taste--Wycherly's potent satire makes this play rather interesting. Even now, the crudeness with which Wycherly has Horner deflate all the talk of honor and the false morality tossed off pro forma by the other characters is a bit shocking, and in 1675 it must have been downright obscene. Through Horner, Wycherly punctures the veneer of London society and shows that the underlying motivations of all these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide them from view. What makes the country wife so refreshing is her total lack of artifice...
...Says Paul Mazursky, who directed her in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: "She has this strange sexuality, which has the slightest edge of being funky, and this humor." She is the exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool of herself...
...growing. Worse yet, it is more than morbid curiosity: a radio station in Miami reported two weeks ago that a poll of its listeners showed they would vote for Nixon over Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. The Lord may move in mysterious ways, but at times they are downright fearsome...
...essays are often contradictory or downright muddy: "Man, at bottom, is not entirely guilty, since he did not begin history; nor entirely innocent, since he continues it." Nor, despite lifelong claims and yearnings, was Camus a true philosopher, with an organized system of thought. But he is frequently something more valuable: a reliable witness. Observes Critic Wilfrid Sheed: "Like Thomas Aquinas, who 'saw' something just before his death that made all his writings seem like straw," men like Albert Camus "seem to have 'seen something' which makes a good deal, anyway, seem like straw . . . What they...