Word: grovelling
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That, of course, is the essence of his appeal on radio. But the essence of film acting is demanding to be loved; Stern, with an occasional puppy-dog mope onscreen, shows himself willing to grovel for his new medium. "I was full of bravado when I first got into this," says Stern, who had never acted before, at least in the Stella Adler sense. "I was going, 'Oh, these actors are a______s, and it's so easy." Nevertheless, he panicked on the first day of shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally...
Neither Selig nor Robe handle the transition between plotlines smoothly. Selig is forced to beg and grovel to Robe and the emotional fireworks don't suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
...next month, I'll be able to find a seat in my house before 1:50. Now that interhouse restrictions have been expanded to the entire lunch hours, aimless frosh, cumbersome quadlings and meddling Crimson staffers who have violated my private space will either have to go elsewhere or grovel at the feet of residents to be counted as a guest. And as far as I'm concerned, they can play their sycophantic trade elsewhere...
Hoffa's son has pledged to root out the Mob, and his attacks on the current Teamster leadership have been fiery. But last week Hoffa sounded highly conciliatory as he pondered whether he will have to grovel for support from the Durham or Shea camps for a rules change to allow him to run. "Everyone's heart is in the right place," Hoffa says now about his opponents, sounding more and more like the consummate politician his father...
...Also on trial, albeit indirectly, was an election-financing system in which Senators grovel for contributions to finance ever more costly TV campaigns, then listen best to the wishes of those who give the most. Anticipating the claim that each of the five had merely taken proper steps to help a constituent, special counsel Robert Bennett declared, "These activities went beyond the norm of constituent service." In helping Keating, who awaits trial for defrauding investors in his defunct California-based Lincoln Savings & Loan and in its parent, American Continental Corp., the Senators, Bennett charged, had ignored the welfare of many...