Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
...strand in the student body at the major law schools, namely, those who see the law as a way to serve society and perhaps even to change it. These young people, usually but not invariably from privileged backgrounds, seek careers which will call on their generosity more than their greed, their curiosity more than their memory, their wish to extend themselves rather than their wish for security. They hope that a law degree will open the possibility of an activist career at home or abroad. This is one of the reasons why they come to law schools rather than schools...
...between the audience and the characters. One believes in neither their shenanigans nor their sufferings. The actors do not close the gap. Ingrid Bergman is beguilingly lovely at 52, but she poses, more often than she performs, for a camera that is not there. Colleen Dewhurst puts consistent bristle, greed and spunk into Sara, bul cajolery does not seem to be her brand of brogue. Since quite a bit of O'Neill's dialogue is melodramatic, maudlin or mushy, Arthur Hill does little more than tread gingerly on his lines, as if they were booby-trapped...
...pride, the power, the greed: it is all in the play, and that's what I like about O'Neill-he gets up there and says...
Half comedy, half drama, Flim Flam is really two films that, superimposed, tend to cancel each other out. The drama tries for realism, indicts mankind for the universal greed and gullibility upon which parasites like the Flim Flam Man prosper. But the actors who play his prey all deliver caricatures instead of portraits in a gallery of outlandish Southern yahoos such as never dwelt outside Dogpatch...