Word: flaccidly
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...girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...
...result, the range of the period was astonishing; it ran from Magnasco's turbid compositions of raggedy monks to the grandeur and sun-washed transparency of Tiepolo's Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, from Pier-Leone Ghezzi's wry grotesqueries and exact social observation to the flaccid but competent imitations of French classical landscape turned out by such artists as Orizzonte. For the first time, Italian artists had to face the fact that they were not living in a paradise of cultural self-sufficiency; they depended, as their Renaissance and Baroque forebears had never needed...
...have been soupier (kettle drums beating more often as Cromwell opens his mouth), the battle standards ("In God we Trust," "God and Country" and sundry other embarrassing Americanisms) would have been painted and stitched with greater care, a voice coach might have been called in for Harris and less flaccid extras used for the battle scenes. The final shot of Cromwell wearily seated in the Speaker's Chair and pondering his future labors would have been scrapped for two more hours about his doings in the Protectorate. Then the musak angels piping in the background could have pronounced their benediction...
...Suez crisis of 1956, but that plus was wiped out in 1967. When Cairo demanded that the U.N. pull out its 3,400-man Emergency Force, U Thant swiftly complied rather than try to stall for time. It was one of the more spectacular misjudgments of Thant's flaccid, nine-year stewardship. As a result, Egypt began mobilizing near Israel's borders, and the Six-Day War was on. In the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Nigerian civil war and the war in Indochina, U.N. impact has been...
...like-now and why-everything-is-so-depressing. Helena Kallianiotes as a dykey hitchhiker who is obsessed with ecology ("All this crap!") and mankind ("Man-man is such a shit! ") is a brilliant parody of an elusive type, the ardent but empty-headed advocate of well-intentioned but flaccid causes. (That she is portrayed as a Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic, the lampoon of a delightfully masturbatory intellectual cocktail party is great, and occasional small details...