Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lovable and becomes merely annoying. Selig and Haahr spend too much time wandering around the set with no apparent purpose, screaming their lines at each other in an excited shriek. Both characters often seem to be engaged less in witty verbal sparring than in shrewish quarreling. The fault here lies with director Alexander Franklin and Elisabeth Mayer, who seem to lose control of the play's pace. The dialogue moves beyond hectic into overload. The tension and excitement, rather than growing gradually between them, has built too fast and too early. The long-deterred climax is simply anti-climactic. Tighter...
...Cogen seems to have worked more strongly on some numbers than others--the orchestra can often sound brilliant in one instance and like a fourth grade beginners group in the next. Both the set and the costumes seem to have come from Gilbert and Sullivan Central Casting, less the fault of the designers perhaps than of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions...
Harvard has been remiss on several counts. The principal fault lies with Harvard Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry, who directly oversees the Union and should be vigilant in ensuring that a Harvard dining hall is operating smoothly. Berry has been inaccessible to workers with complaints, sending a terrible message for those with legitimate problems...
This is not De Niro's fault. The movie goes where movies must go: toward melodrama. And toward the current fashion (Jack the Bear, Radio Flyer) for taking up but not fully confronting child abuse. Something more subtle is going on in Wolff's book, a confrontation with a richer, quirkier past and his emerging self that the movie too often brushes aside...
Some critics see the current interest in heredity as part of an ugly political trend. "In socially conservative times," argues political scientist Diane Paul of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, "we tend to say crime and poverty are not our fault and put the blame not on society but on genes...