Word: drollness
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...with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous and enchanting. His mammoth Big Brother, wearing a visored cap, or his two Seraphim totems, sticking out their tongues, provoke laughter-and a shiver...
...Italian, Keith Baxter is droll in the best and worst sense of that awful word. The girl, Jennifer Hillary, pleasantly undercuts Baxter's greasiness and has a tolerable delivery in the fine old Joan Greenwood tradition. But Robert Reed as the American makes nothing of a vaguely interesting character; the best that can be said for him is that he has changed since The Defenders. Finally Betsy von Furstenberg has received such prominent credit in the program for her two-second walk-on that further comment would constitute overkill...
Whenever a children's classic has been blessed with great illustrations, a film version of the story almost always seems like a betrayal of trust. No movie could ever match the sweep and detail of N. C. Wyeth's paintings for Treasure Island, and Tenniel's droll grotesques for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remain as much a part of the book's charm as Alice herself...
...City Spaces. On the surface, the reason is a simple one. Smith's works must be fabricated individually by commercial firms such as Industrial Welding. According to Smith's dealer, Donald Droll of the Fischbach Gallery, even the simplest works, such as Die, cost as much as $2,000 to produce. Besides, the work is too big and heavy to keep in the house. It is intended for outdoors, for the public to enjoy. Tony Smith is not the only artist to think in terms of outdoor space. Many other sculptors are beginning to create works...
...cast, finding itself with shallow, mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...