Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creamed," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said, "but at times, I had four sophomores and a freshmen on the court. We will get better as we get more experience. I don't know why we were so flat. They were not taller than us, they were just more aggressive. Maybe it was nerves...
...dieties, even those who are elected. George Bush, in another sketch, is fishing from the presidential yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name a barbarian czar to coordinate...
Lawrence called his style "dynamic Cubism," but although its debt to late Cubism is obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...
...role with powerful spite, and as the initiator of most of the action, prods the other characters into deeper levels of hatred. She is vehement. The three post-teeny boppers, played by Jessica Yager, Bess Wohl, and Rashida Jones, are bubbly and keep effervescing until the climax leaves them flat. The two widows, played by Rebecca A. Murray and Jenni Paredes, provide timely comic relief; their speech oscillates between keen observation of the way things used to be and transparent example-setting for why they must change...
Oscar Wilde once said, "Ambition is the last refuge of failure." Nothing could be truer when sitting through Merlyn: A New Musical, now playing on the Loeb Mainstage. Though it desperately wants to be taken seriously, this original show falls flat on most every level and eventually devolves into a ludicrous and gratuitous display...