Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks us to search, as she must have had to, for the hard, pure, exemplary and not easily endearing innocence she found in Lindy Chamberlain. We respond...
...from time to time, get to throw a gopher ball, dribble the wrong way and fall down flat on our faces during a big race...
These days, a very tough question. For too long "opera" has been narrowly + defined as what goes on at the Metropolitan Opera House; a rigid distinction between art and entertainment, fervently defended by a musical flat-earth society, has denied audiences the riches that lie beyond the narrow shoals of the classical repertoire. Today, though, singers and conductors are making the voyage and discovering a brave new world on the other side: America's own authentic artistic heritage. Broadway, say hello to high class...
...globes are awkward to carry around. And no matter what gimmick is used, drawing the surface of a sphere on a flat plane results in distortion. Anyone who tries to flatten the whole peel of an orange can imagine the difficulty. The features of a globe cannot be transferred accurately to a flat map. If the shapes of continents are correct, the sizes are wrong; a system that is accurate at the equator is hopeless at the poles...
...that the dying is done. Barnes continues to hammer at the same arguments, the same feminist, anti-clerical strains that he has touted all along. Whatever power they had earlier in the play, these ideas are already beginning to lose their comic appeal, and when made serious, they fall flat. The actors--who look ridiculous to start with in their spectacularly clean frocks, rags and robes--really cannot effect the change with much success...