Word: dulle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...
...drama critic and former literary director of England's National Theater, Kenneth Peacock Tynan knows what keeps readers and audiences in their seats. He did, after all, conceive and produce Oh! Calcutta! Tynan can be glib, self-serving, tricky and loosely digressionary. But he is never dull. At 52, the graying provocateur describes himself as "a cricket-loving radical" and misses few opportunities to tease the bourgeoisie about the joys of the flesh...
...people around you change. The guy next door who is dull as hell turns out to be funny. The nice normal woman down the hall is really a competitive monster ("that's right, four 20-page papers due tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for my exams"). The tutor who does nothing but play loud music becomes a hermit, hiding away in his suite to work on a paper that was due "two years...
...young and inexperienced; everyone knows that. Sometimes it comes out flat and sloppy and just a little bit dull. Jut as often, it displays an exciting, scrappy, hustling style that wears down opponents and evokes hope that this season won't end in the inevitable disappointment of recent years...
...make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto are nowhere to be found...