Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposed to entertainment or fun. Some of my best friends have fun. (See, a little humor there.) But the primary purpose of Harvard is educational and academic, and any exceptions should be made explicitly and open to debate...
...real interest lies in exploring the unexamined assumptions that families live by. Each of the Vaughnums has been suppressing some secret; each ends by realizing that some seeming impossibility has come to pass. While all this adroit plotting is going on, the characters are interacting so naturally, with rowdy humor so integral to their personalities, that Lonely Street seems more a slice of life than a "well-made play." Even in the two most finely honed scenes--when Ruth and Raymond discuss why, despite their affection, they have always avoided each other, and when Miss Anna learns the truth about...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...
...fair, each actor individually does well, but as an ensemble they lack cohesion. Lines evaporate. Little carries across the stage. And along with the passion, the humor in the dialogue--a Stoppard play should be a rollicking experience--is lost as well...
...really be involved in what is going on." Hallward says that the first time she attended a service at the monastery, she ended up sitting at the head table at the dinner following the service, and, to her surprise, found that the superior had "an incredible sense of humor...