Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gross should have spent less time worrying about shock value and more time getting performances that are expressive enough to sustain the play's angst and tension for nearly three hours. In that length of time, none of the women can find any way to express nervousness other than clutching at their skirts, or any way to express happiness other than pirouetting...
...Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones and Paul Le Mat, and he does well with the bitter ironies implicit in visits to the prison by celebrity peace delegations. But at best he generates only a distant compassion for his subjects. The kind of vivid identification that a film like Midnight Express created eludes him. Still, if American POWs deserve in the end a higher art than Chetwynd commands, they are at least entitled to the respect he accords their heroism...
...success of Swimming to Cambodia is Gray. His rapid-fire speech, expressive voice and fantastic facial expressions successfully convey his incredulity at the world around him. And the interplay among Gray's script, five short clips from The Killing Fields, and Laurie Anderson's music make the film a wonderful journey through the mind of a comic who is horrified by his world. The bombing of Cambodia is a stark example of what is wrong with his country, but his sarcastic self-deprecations and caricatures of others express his dismay at his society in general...
...majority--which like the protestors does not take issue with these facts--accepts the bizarre argument that restricting the vice consul's movement was justified by the protestor's own right to express their opposition to him. They consider his freedom of movement to have remained intact because his legs were not prevented from taking him out the only unblockaded door. We find such reasoning illogical and dangerous...
...community like this, protest is unavoidable and often commendable--but not when it interferes with a guest's freedom to express his views. The protestors were free to ignore this principle, and they did. Now they should accept responsibility for their actions; doing so, despite the majority's confused view, is a requisite of civil disobedience. The idea that University administrators are to blame for not taking the offensive and actively securing Kent-Brown's right to speak is ludicrous. As members of the Ad Board hear cases stemming from the protest, they should reflect upon their obligation to defend...