Word: inhabitation
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...many people are aware that Nessie, the serpentine monster that is said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, has an American cousin cruising the depths of Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York. Champ, as the lake monster is called, was first reported in 1609 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Since then there have been some 100 purported sightings of the serpent, which is said to measure anywhere from 10 ft. to 45 ft. and to have a horse-shaped head bearing two tiny horns. Over the centuries, Champ has managed to take care of himself quite...
...handsome, too careful: Rafelson caresses every ladder in Cora's stockings, every crescent of dirt under Frank's fingernails, until they become aspects of art direction. Jack Nicholson's performance as Frank is studied too. The dashing star of a decade ago has dared to inhabit the molting seediness of the character actor. So Cora must choose between two middle-aged galoots: one offers her security, the other release. This is her chance to come alive, and she grabs...
...star. It occupies a country somewhere between Barney Miller and the works of Joseph Wambaugh: a land of masculine camaraderie in which the bureaucrats don't understand how things are in the real world, and an unspoken tenderness is exchanged between police and perpetrators because they both inhabit the same mean streets. But the cut of life examined in the film and its attitudes are not highly original, and are too close for comfort to the manner of made-for-TV movies...
...suffer from a tendency toward perfection. Talented writers keep popping up in the few magazines that still publish fiction. The technical level is high; yet the values that make a good story-compression, subtle tone and a microsurgical eye-strike many readers as too precious and inhospitable. One can inhabit a rambling, modern novel; the short story of the '70s seems like an impersonal waiting room full of disparate patients...
First Family would be something to laugh about if it didn't completely kill any chance that a funny movie about the ridiculous people who inhabit the White House will ever be made. When the critics and studio accountants finish with this one, no studio will be foolish enough to bankroll a similar project until the memory of this film is dead and buried...