Word: flaccidities
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...ABOVE IT ALL, floats the moon. In Bertolucci's cosmos, there is neither night nor day, nor lunar cycles. Rather, there swims above us at all times, a huge flaccid orb, symbolizing-what? Bertolucci obviously doesn't know since this moon appears at any given moment, even in the early afternoon. This absurd use of the moon to symbolize essentially everything and nothing gives a hint of Luna's incoherency...
...meeting with Hungarian Boss Jāanos Kádár, the local press and diplomatic corps were not so much interested in what Brezhnev said as the difficulty with which he said it. Ambassadors in a receiving line compared notes afterward on the Soviet leader's flaccid handshake and his shuffle as he mounted the steps to a speaker's platform. Brezhnev's public appearances are becoming primarily chances to examine the patient...
Unfortunately the rockabilly energy level dies down for side two, and Gordon resorts to a series of flaccid slow ballads--"It's Only Make Believe," "Wheel of Fortune," "I Just Met a Memory," and "Blue Christmas." It's well-known that slow numbers are totally worthless, except for high school kids who need a cheap feel at the dance Saturday night to get them through the week. Today's high schools are too busy playing the Bee Gees and Donna Summer to waste time on Robert Gordon...
Arvin Brown's production takes its time, shuffling and limping through a theatrical desert. The flaccid blocking and extraordinarily ugly sets place the burden of interest on the two leads. Lois Nettleton gives a conventional performance as Thompson, but within the artificial confines of her role she suggests a human being surprisingly often, her voice choked with pain and confusion, then rising with conviction, bearing the weight of her husband's illness as the character and the actress plow on with the strength and courage of an old trooper...
Another unhappy legacy with which Boumedienne's successor must deal is a generally flaccid population. Boumedienne had the charisma of a stone, and after 13 years of his constant calls for sacrifice, many among Algeria's 18 million have turned off and tuned...