Word: heavyhandedness
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Human Rights Watch says the government is undermining its reformist agenda by resorting to heavyhanded tactics of past regimes. "In its popular public campaign against corruption and abuse of political power, the government has routinely used torture to extract confessions or to gain information," the report says. "Torture has also...
Reviving "Judgment at Nuremberg" may be the toughest test. This famous drama, made into an Oscar-winning film in 1961, is an icon of postwar liberalism, and author Abby Mann (who revised the script slightly for its Broadway debut) is a message playwright of the old school. Onstage, the work...
Other shorts in the program included Dog Days and Humpty Dumpty Land, both of which dealt with the terrors of present-day war, the former from the civilian point of view, the latter through the eyes of a half-sane soldier. Humpty Dumpty Land has moments of surprising grace, handling...
Turns out Network was just a joke. Sidney Lumet, the director of that scathing satire of TV, has adapted his social-issues subject matter into a talky, intriguing, if spotty, series about New York City courts. The dialogue can be as heavyhanded as, well, a Sidney Lumet picture. But Alan...
Unfortunately for "Dollhouse", Solondz cannot achieve this same balance in his script. Towards the end of the movie, "Dollhouse" becomes weighted down by a heavyhanded serving of would-be farce. Missy is kidnapped and imprisoned under a shuffle-board court, Dawn runs away to Times Square to look at her...