Word: enlivenment
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...compound the problem, most of the actors in this "bound-for-Broadway" production do not even try to enliven the proceedings. Ann Sachs as Lucy, the pale afflicted one, is the first character to appear on stage. She has enough energy to flit about in her gossamer frock--but right off the bat, we can tell she is wan and vapid. Other characters are not much better...
Next to Halprin, Architect Philip Johnson, 71, is probably the man most interested in water as art. "Modern architecture is so dull and flat in itself that architects began looking for something to enliven it-and they remembered Rome." So says the man who added fountains to the foreplaza of New York City's Seagram Building, which he co-designed with Mies van der Rohe. Johnson's most conspicuous recent water work is Fort Worth's Water Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool...
...certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul Rappeneau seems to understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination of characters and incidents with any modern twists or new routines. He does not realize that this kind of fun cannot be created by haphazardly mixing together elements that worked well for Philippe de Broca and Preston Sturges; the essential ingredients are those the cook pulls from...
...have enough time to make their dreams come true each weekend. But for the last decade, House film societies have attempted to make money by letting people live out their fantasies vicariously. The comics, western toughs, sophisticated gamblers and icily composed lovers who inhabit the silver screen enliven audiences sated with papers, computers, and endless reading lists...
...Yale graduate who has written five unpublished novels, Tucker hopes to enliven the magazine's high-minded mix of essays, reviews and reportage to draw a younger audience. "It's a damn good magazine with a lot of interesting stuff," he says, "but it's always somebody's aunt who reads it. None of my contemporaries do. I only began reading it after that breakfast...