Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Irish have lots of spice in their speech, their cuisine runs a rather bland gamut from stews to stout. In a tradition-jarring step, however, Lawry's Foods of Los Angeles has opened a taco and tostado plant in Dublin...
While the characters are shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...
Years ago, Dorothy Parker made an accurate analysis of Hepburn's acting ability: "She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B." Today she has trouble getting beyond A. Fonda has been able to avoid her until now; he too must be slowing down...
Ilene B. Weininger '84, HRCC treasurer, said yesterday that while the philosophies of the group run the gamut from libertarianism to "New Right", the members share two basic principles--"a belief in individual responsibility and autonomy" and a "distrust of communism...
...restaurant. We must have resembled nothing so much as two gays who'd gone away for the weekend to sort out their relationship." Nunn and Caird sorted it out well enough: Nickleby opened at the R.S.C.'s London base, the Aldwych Theater, in June 1980. Early reviews ran the gamut from apathy to ecstasy, but audiences loved it from the first. The show returned to the R.S.C. repertory for two more extended runs, and was the hottest ticket in London...