Word: languidness
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...Harrison's direction is fine when it captures the languid rhythm of everyday preoccupations and lets its attractive actors (especially Hallie Foote, the author's daughter) breathe quietly through the lace curtains of memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...
JIMMY PAGE, in his transition from Led Zeppelin to the Firm, has shelved his headlining status and satanic hooliganism and returned to his blues-based roots. On the Firm's languid first album, Page sounded like a sessionman rather than the guitar deity he was labeled during Zep's reign--not surprising since Page began his career as a sessionman for half of Britain, including the early Who. But on the Firm's new LP, Mean Business (Atlantic) Page begins to build up the band into more than just a mishmash of misfiring musicianship...
Actors, like rock-'n'-roll singers, find something irresistible about a Southern accent. Those languid, drawling syllables just seem to make emotions sound bigger. That may be the least of the reasons why Tennessee Williams' plays have endured, but in the opening minutes of Showtime's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it is the most obvious. (The production, part of the network's "Broadway on Showtime" series, premiered on Sunday and will repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie...
...ideal is to go there on a visit, a trip. The most widely used drugs, in fact, promise to re-create the experience of a major mental illness. Marijuana lets you circumnavigate the land of schizophrenia; LSD parachutes you in for the day. Quaaludes and downers promise a languid overnight stay in the Lethean land of depression, cocaine in the energized hothouse of mania...
...Boasting a list of international brews longer that the course catalogue, the Coffee Connection is for the serious connoisseur who knows what he she wants. If you're stymied, try the Brazilian and branch, out from there. The cheese platters and desserts are not bad: the atmosphere's less languid than some true schmoozers would wish. Cafe Pamplona (12 Bow St.): One of the Square's chic spots, packed in the winter, Pamplona is the place to be seen, whether you're reading your favorite Russian or Sanskrit tomes; or just making the scene with a friend or teaching fellow...