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...suddenly, the caged look of animal fear drops from her face as it goes grimly taut. She changes into a severe formless suit and walks out on her husband looking like...
Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...
LIKE Walt Whitman, Ginsberg at his worst is unbelievably bad. His indiscriminate wanderings lead only to dead-end, dead-Beat poetry. But his failures throw his strong accomplishments in experimental poetry into greater relief. The form behind his seemingly formless poetry lies in his own personal senses of sound and breathing rhythm. He juxtaposes his words as much by their sounds as by their sense...
...fascinating to see how effectively Osborne can make use of what is very close to improvisational theater, for that is the realm into which his play falls. A Sense of Detachment is in many ways a mischievous experiment in audience exploitation. Coursing through his apparently aimless and formless play is Osborne's conviction that man, in his superficial and petty preoccupation with dross, is forgetting how to love...
...abruptly transformed into a national celebrity quite by mischance. After Unsafe at Any Speed, G.M. foolishly set detectives on the trail of its obscure critic. When a Senate subcommittee aired this Goliath v. David melodrama, Nader became a hero of just about everybody who feels oppressed by a formless, corporate "they...