Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman's point of view, so Fischer's observations fall a bit flat...
...with a knowing honesty reminiscent of Edna O'Brien. Augusta cannot bear thoughts of her husband's existing in the world without her. "It was the fact that he wasn't dead that worked me like a pin on a balloon," she says, "stabbing me and leaving me airless. Flat...
...came out a little flat," junior high jumper Terry Mann (6'7", first place) said. "We knew that we were the better team and that we'd find a way to win. If we met them again in a couple of weeks, it wouldn't be close...
...instantly dated. This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story-how defiantly unhip is that?-and is presumably meant as sensitivity training for 20-year-olds. But in reaching for winsome charm, the film falls flat. This meeting of bright minds often plays like desperate showing...
After a 23-hour flight from Sydney, the Australian dancers LISA PAVANE, 33, and GREG HORSMAN, 31, were ready for sleep in their London flat. Then the phone rang. Midway through the English National Ballet's Swan Lake, the prima ballerina was injured. Pavane and Horsman--they're married and not the star- crossed lovers they dance in Romeo and Juliet, above--were summoned. The two E.N.B. principals rushed by taxi to Royal Festival Hall as the audience waited. They leaped into Act III. ``It was,'' says Pavane, who whipped through the Black Swan's famously difficult 32 fouettes...