Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best in the dialogue sections--his voice clear, sardonic and genuinely Gilbertian. He catches the verbal nuances with the skill of a born Savoyard and manages to be not only a buffoon and a figure of pathos, but, when necessary, a commanding Lord in his own right. The only flaw in Crowley's performance is that his voice is not quite as strong as it might be--never powerful enough to belt out a line that needs belting out. Nonetheless, he traverses the slippery heights of his nightmare song with the grace of a chamois, never faltering and never failing...
PERHAPS THE MOST annoying flaw in the novel is the interjection of Orson Welles as a former resident of one of the towns in which the Neumillers lived. The reference is too often repeated and certainly unnecessary, save for the fact that it shows the fascination of the characters with the rich or famous...
Emotional Mistrust. One too familiar flaw in Fulbright's argument lies in his repeated indictment of "the media" -a careless lumping together of what is in fact a remarkably diverse and independent collection of publishers and broadcasters. Yet Fulbright may have a point when he is worried about the spread of an automatic, "emotional mistrust to Government in general." He calls for "a measure of voluntary restraint, an implicit agreement among the major groups and interests in our society that none will apply their powers to the fullest." Not a bad precept-and not an easy one to apply...
...Moonchildren tries to take on too much--anti-war demonstrations, the "generation gap," cohabitation: Weller can't organize the bits and pieces of these students' lives into a coherent whole. His play's major flaw is the schism between the student world and the adult world; an assortment of "real" people enter and exit, but their collective intrusion is distracting rather than dramatic...
...fourth and worst brush with default since last spring -occurred when city officials had to come up with $477 million to redeem short-term notes, pay sanitation workers and meet other expenses-but had only $34 million in the till. This near disaster was primarily caused by a flaw in the complex $2.3 billion rescue package that the state legislature had put together last month to carry the city into December. To guarantee that the state would have help in bailing out the city, the legislature had constructed a Rube Goldberg financing scheme that offered Big Mac $750 million...