Word: insipidities
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...second feature, "Mr. Imperium," was even more disappointing. Lana Turner turned in one of her most insipid performances as a mid-western showgirl racing after an Italian king. The sound track did no justice to Ezio Pinza's voice and the fake scenery ruined one possible justification for this Technicolor film. Armchair tourists, however, may enjoy a few authentic shots of Italy...
Moravia's little bully grew up in a broken home; his mother neglected him one day and besieged him with affection the next. Marcello diverted himself by killing animals. "It was from cruelty that he derived the only pleasures that did not seem . . . insipid." At 13, he suffered an unforgettable shock: a grownup invited Marcello to his room to see a revolver, then began making homosexual passes. Marcello, in a panic of fear and fascination, picked up the revolver, fired and fled...
...Surely this isn't Harvard University, the greatest of schools, the ultimate goal of our nation's top teenage students? Now I'm just a local boy, fresh out of a high-school which keeps football in one place and studies in another; but if a half-hearted, unspirited, insipid rally similar to tonight's ever took place at Newton High, we'd give up both football and our school. There are, I am told, about ten thousand students in our fair university which every day seems to assume more and more the aspect of a crimson funeral parlor...
Julie Haydon does an adequate job in the part of Blanche, the unhappy nymphomanic, until she tries too hard to assume a Southern accent and fails miserably. Norma Connolly, as Blanche's sister Stella Kowalski, a supposedly sympathetic character, is unconvincing at her best and insipid at her worst, but her biggest trouble is that she just doesn't understand her part. And when Joe Graham, who played a very effeminate Mitch, discovered that Blanche had lied to him about her purity, he left the audience completely cold...
...conducting the chamber orchestra of the English Opera Group, as originally scheduled,*but that was a poor excuse for failing to do well by Mozart. Wrote the Algemeen Handelsblad: "If Benjamin Britten belongs to the elect, yesterday he was degraded to the level of the many. It was an insipid, listless and pitiful concert . . . the public was faced with a difficult problem: cool reception or forced applause." The Nieuwe Rotterdamse C our ant was slightly more polite: "A quiet, genial evening for anyone who had left exacting criticism at home...