Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happens to the girl is, understandably, the reviewer's secret. One flaw that may safely be mentioned is that while the caretakers try in every way to convince the girl that the time is 1935 and not 1973, they never succeed. If the girl plausibly believed that she was losing her mind, the play might have achieved some of the tingling suspense of Gaslight...
...from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses in an admittedly difficult part, the Sinfonia was still exciting--but it could have been much better...
...this ill-written, wretchedly performed and tediously directed film may be said to have a central flaw, it probably lies in its reckless violation of a bit of conventional theatrical wisdom: when you call a lot of attention to a gun on the wall in Act I, it had better go off-loudly-by the end of the evening...
Gore Vidal, Allen Drury and Tom Wicker (the novelist) share with Richard Nixon a common flaw: all have failed to make our capital city believable. One explanation of why Washington fiction is so lame may be that while the stages and settings are of heroic size and the plots involve the fate of nations, the figures shouting speeches and shaking swords seem absurdly tiny...
...course, next week brings another writer, and the only reliable prediction is that there will be a comparable amount of handholding and the same flood of embarassing displays of emotion. In the coming episode, the girl's tragic flaw is that she is too rich. What...