Word: featherbedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preston Sturges used to write and direct this stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his...
Their experiences had soured them to the American dream even before the Levittowns had started sprouting in every suburb. But there are no speeches about the horrors of the system in Talley's Folly--their dissatisfaction turns inward. It is on this ground that Wilson's two characters finally come...