Word: flaccidities
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...gold and come up with a few weakly glinting bits. The Enchanter offers us flaccid auxiliary characters and a descriptive style which--although recognizably Nabokov's in its wit and lilt--becomes self-indulgently poetic and sinks into monotony...
...Blumenthal and Zak Klobucher as Pippin's stepmother and brother respectively, the dancers reenergize the somewhat flaccid middle section of the play...
...Equally flaccid is Radford's one stab at interpreting Orwell. After Winston's love has been ripped out of him and he has renounced Julia and himself, he sits alone and scrawls "2 plus 2 equals" in the dust of a café tabletop. The purpose of this open-ended conclusion is a mystyery only God and Bergman, but certainly not Radford, can solve. Not only does it break the emotional tone of the film and make the viewer think, but it leaves the viewer with half-developed food for thought. A far more appropriate ending would have been Orwell...
...country during the next couple of years, Americans will become bitterer than ever, and sink to new depths of national despair. Says he: "Americans will feel had, no matter what party is running the White House at the time." Or the country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner, president of the Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council. "The cheerful mood can easily be converted into hedonism, which in turn can trigger a destruction of the moral fiber of American life...
REMAKING OLD CLASSICS has always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both...