Word: heavyhandedness
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Indeed Tony's coital bouts with the heroine provide Looking for Mr. Goodbar with its few insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's...
Coover's approach to the Rosenbergs' executions stems from a particularly heavyhanded variety of political satire that flourished in the 1960s: in Paul Krassner's magazine the Realist, for example, and hi Barbara Garson's play MacBird! Political figures, so the paranoia goes, are fair game...
But Angell is not so blind a fan that he can't criticize recent negative developments in baseball. There is, for instance, the heavyhanded intrusion of network television, which dictates that World Series games be played at night in near-freezing temperatures at the end of October. Among other atrocities...
Spread out amid landscaped lawns, pine trees and poplars on the eastern fringes of Seoul, the headquarters of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency looks more like a tranquil U.S. campus than the nerve center of what is perhaps the most overzealous, if not the most heavyhanded, secret service in the...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt...