Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performances (the degree of talent represented in the picture is substantial), but in Steven S. Schwartz's misguided screenplay. Rather than tackle issues with wit and intelligence, Schwartz chooses to use insultingly phony characters to reveal the faults of the modern health care machine through their broadly drawn flaws. A painful exercise in unrealized potential...
Immediately following the doubles final, the singles title was to be decided. And although the battle lines were drawn for that final matchup, the familial duel would have to wait. Due to a hematoba in his heel, Tom was forced to default and thus James was handed the singles trophy in a walkover...
Bryant says the COPS program has drawn him closer to his work. "Two or three weeks ago I had to arrest this outside guy sitting in Harvard Yard, drinking and yelling obscenities at women, and took it more personally because this is my sector and these are my students," he says...
What ensues is a drawn-out mess of a plot, involving seduction, blackmail and some randomly inserted surrealistic interludes featuring Wallace Shawn as the devil. Nothing in the health-care industry, Lumet asserts, is what it seems, and everyone is out to make a quick buck. That's all well and good, but with material so decidedly unenlightening, Lumet as a filmmaker should at least present it in an entertaining or thought-provoking manner. Instead, he putters along, trying to convince the audience that they are seeing something...
Admittedly, the play itself is far from perfect and bears an uncomfortably confused attitude toward its heroine. Still, Something about Catherine, that "mediocre and defenseless creature," has always drawn the attention of some superlative artistic advocates. Like the Wyler film and the Broadway productions, this Heiress boasts an impeccable cast and a sensitive director who nearly overcome the flaws in the script with the sheer emotional power of their commitment to the work. As befits the story of a wallflower, the Lyric takes flawed material and makes of it something magnificent...