Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Thayer a retired professor rounding 80, Fonda plays the curmudgeon to the hilt. Thompson's script is very much in the Neil Simon mold since it is one great aggregation of one-liners, and Fonda gets the lion's share of them. The jokes are a bit softer and more countrified than Simon's bitchy repartee. but Fonda succeeds in putting enough spin on them to give the dialogue bite. His deadpan is convincing. He puckers up his chin a little and blows the quips out like a man nonchalantly shooting marbles from his mouth into a brass spittoon...
...regime in question; never are they enough to redress the social and economic problems; if they have any effect at all, it is the opposite of their intent, the weakening of the government. Sometimes, as with the Reagan administration, our government opts to back the "friendly" despot to the hilt. No matter; in either case, the people eventually win, though only after much bloodshed, much sacrifice, much bitterness...
...night, Hall came at me with a big double-cut and the blade just snapped off the hilt of my sword. I froze, but Japes Emerson, who was playing Hall, knew immediately what to do--he jumped me. My sword went clattering away and we started wrestling on the ground. We were making the whole fight up as we went along now, and in the middle of it, I realized that if I died on my back, I couldn't make my final speech. See, I wanted to collapse during my speech--to show this great ebbing of life...
...Editors: "Arming the World" [Oct. 26] brought into sharper focus the terrible dilemma we face. Which is better-to curtail arms sales to Third World powers and increase their vulnerability or to arm everyone to the hilt and wait for mutual annihilation? I do not see much to cheer about in either camp...
...Hepburn's films of the '50s and '60s: the lonely triumph of spinsterhood (Summertime, The African Queen, The Rainmaker), the sad declineinto dementia (Suddenly Last Summer, Long Day's Journey into Night). These later roles gave her the opportunity to soar, and she played each lovely chance to the hilt, whether she was getting morosely drunk over a lemonade in Pat and Mike (1952) or losing herself in heroin and reverie as O'Neill's Mary Tyrone...