Word: flaccidities
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...self-consciousness they enforce and the sniggering communal sensibility they impose lay heavily on the play. The emotional changes which should animate the third act are lost; the tension which should carry us over the hump of the comedy-only tautness can stave off boredom in humor-is flaccid...
Boyle's book is most effective polemically when simply relating the flaccid reactions of various law-enforcement agencies to inquiries on what is officially being done about known polluters. It is probably most instructive in showing how Boyle and like-minded Hudson Valley neighbors have brought private action against companies who break the law by polluting the river. Customarily the going is slow. But any private group that can hold on long enough to win gets a share of the fine the company must forfeit, and can use it to help pay for playing David to further industrial Goliaths...
CIRCLE OF SQUARES by William Price Turner. 192 pages. Walker. $4.50. A flaccid mystery about clandestine middle-aged conspirators against the tyranny of youth who discover the titillations and limitations of Flab Power...
...only end up in situation comedy. They cannot really tell an orgy from a "sensitivity" session-and neither, unfortunately, can the film's authors, who ought to go see the skit about wholesome swingers in that succes de scandale Off-Broadway, Oh! Calcutta! The dialogue remains flaccid throughout, badly in need of the kind of cutting edge that Billy Wilder could have given it. What Mazursky and Tucker obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood. Why B&C&T&A was chosen...
Peck, all dignity, stalks senselessly through the film like a man in someone else's nightmare. The dreamer is Film Maker Carl Foreman, whose shoddy special effects and flaccid production soon turn Mackennas Gold into solid dross. To fill up the film, he has José Feliciano twanging a narrative ballad and Quincy Jones's thunderously atmospheric music throughout. The result sounds like pebbles clattering down the Grand Canyon...