Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Funny Bones" concentrates on solid, yet innovative, aesthetics, blending cinematic traditions of horror, black comedy, slapstick and absurdity provocatively and artlessly. It is this effortless, quirky creativity that the films currently touted as the next "cult classic" seek. Like a good comedy routine, it's born, not made; "Funny Bones" is a natural...
Hollomon is a talented actress whom one would suspect of being Winona Ryder and Dave Pirner's love child if she weren't in the same age group. Her effortless portrayal of a 17-year-old outsider is what makes this movie worth seeing. Thought the script lapses into predictability sometimes, a few experimental angles don't quite make the grade and the other actors' believability fades in and out, Laurel is always endearing and easy to relate...
...grace and charm" as he "performed admirably," "sidestepped any awkwardness with boyish aplomb," and "kept the evening in perfect perspective." We simple, star-struck Pudding folk can only dream of the day when we will be able to rival Ms. Rose's cool, seemingly effortless air of journalistic detachment...
...program with another short and mystically impressionistic de Falla transcription ("Homenaje Pour le Tombeau de Debussy"), and a clearly well-rehearsed 24th Caprice of Paginini. Here, transcribed pizzacati, though sometimes lacking in volume, were remarkably distinguishable from regularly bowed notes. As an encore, Fisk offered a similarly effortless and energetic rendition of Julio Segruras' "El Colibri...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must...