Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This suggests a chief flaw in the movie, the lack of serious characters, besides Nick, on whom Mabel's madness can be registered. Both mothers-in-law are one-dimensional, and I'm not sure it's in the nature of mothers-in-law to be to. Eddie Shaw is unbelievably silly as the Jewish doctor who tries to intercode between Mabel and Nick. Mabel's father appears at the dinner to welcome his daughter back from the anylum and we find that her obsession with the children is supplemented by a heavy attachment to him--but the idea...
Under Anderson's direction, the movie gathers enormous force, partly from the raw skill of its actors, partly from the accumulating tension of frustration. Anderson has tried to turn the play's deepest flaw to its own advantage. In Celebration has power from energy that is never released. Anderson's skill cannot make the play any more complete or successful, but it does make it happen superbly well...
...result, there is a currently fashionable speculation in Washington and elsewhere that might be called the Mr. X theory. It holds that either in the primaries or at a deadlocked convention a new candidate, Mr. X, will sweep the exhausted and disarrayed Democrats off their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face...
...Controls. The difficulties the automakers are having with Government safety and pollution regulations are a prime consequence of that flaw. For years the auto companies did not take seriously enough the rising clamor for greater car safety and less polluting engines. As a result, Government moved in and imposed stiffer standards than might have been necessary if the companies had acted voluntarily...
...original legend of Joan of Arc was all ethereal voices and uprolled eyes. George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan suffered from an opposite flaw: a 15th century French farm girl with 19th century English socialist leanings, she seemed all pragmatism and muddy boots...