Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tripp Tracy's play has been difficult to pinpoint; perhaps his style looked so effortless last season that anything else must pale by comparison. But his GAA has risen to 3.68, and his wild, get-me-the-Maalox style has backfired on several occasions. In fairness to Tracy, on some weekends the Crimson defense hasn't given him as much support as it has Israel, and his form has been better of late. But Harvard needs two top-notch net-minders if it wants to make any significant playoff noise, and Tracy will admit that he's got some work...
...hardly any physical contact between the two, the feelings are unmistakable and eloquent. What makes this film so affecting is not so much the subject as its treatment--it presents two points of view fairly, without subordinating one man's life. "Philadelphia" manages to handle something very serious with effortless elegance. It is uncompromised, beautiful, truthful in detail and resonant with emotion...
...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 exams insist at the top: "Illustrate," "Be specific," etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there...
...shame when this happens; it's like being in a car that accelerates and comes to full-stop, again and again. The characters change moods like cartoon figures, adding to the merry simplicity of the plot and milking Gilbert's wit for all it's worth. This is effortless, fun entertainment...
Joel Derfner as Ralph Rackstraw sings in an elegant, well-projected voice with effortless transitions to higher registers. Even his speech seems melodious, as if half-sung. With arms flailing wildly about him, he gives his part some wonderfully bombastic melodrama. Jill Weitzner shines as Little Buttercup. She communicates complex thoughts with her facial expressions, and has a crystalline, resonant voice to match. Weitzner's movements capitalize almost instinctively on her physique (in the play, she is given enough weight to take down a truck). We have no doubt that she is ideally suited to this type of physical humor...