Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandy Patinkin is also a tragic hero in this film, striving and straining in vain to drag his role from the saccharine muck. As does Close, Patinkin makes himself likeable, playing the part of a loving, loyal husband, but the disgusting sweetness of his character, coupled with the sheer inanity of his lines, makes him unbelievable and even annoying...
...PARTIES DRAG in their psychological garbage for viewer perusal, which consists mostly of good old-fashioned Catholic guilt. Livingston's sister died in a convent, so she would like to hate Catholicism, except her senile mother makes her feel guilty about being ungodly, and professional ethics call for objectivity in the case. Agnes thinks her child's father was God, so naturally she has ambiguous feelings towards her heavenly spouse. And poor Mother Superior has the misfortune of also being Agnes's aunt, which makes her feel responsible both for Agnes's abuse as a child and Agnes's eventual...
...military and where Japan has frequently been accused of getting a "free ride" on defense, the decison was applauded by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The move, however, did not sit well with Japan's Socialist Party, which accused Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of being "ready to drag Japan back to the path toward war." And according to a poll published by the newspaper Nikkei, more than 65% of the public prefers that the government stick to the less-than-1% approach to defense...
...University with all the investment brainpower of Harvard to say that it could not over a period of a year profitably rearrange its portfolio is straining credibility. Students are not demanding that Harvard literally sell all of its stock in one fell swoop. Harvard can drag it out over a year or two if it wants...
...exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status as Hollywood's least placable loser; every syllable of Sylvester's lisp or Pepe Le Pew's fetid French intensifies the viewer's ability to believe that these creatures are not only personalities but gifted movie stars. Bugs, even when dolled up in drag (a spectacle that always drives Elmer to embarrassments of lust), is Cagney plus Groucho. Pepe is a Charles Boyer with negative sex appeal. And whether in basic black or in period parts such as Robin Hood, Doorlock Holmes and the Scarlet Pumpernickel, Daffy is Everyman--well, Everyduck--on the worst...