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...Each layer within Hoffman's performance reveals his versatility as an actor--each character faces its own dilemma without losing its distinctiveness and individual appeal. The screenplay enables Hoffman to develop three different characters all within the confines of one non-burlesque plot. (Hoffman was a major writer...
DORSEY'S ROLE as Emily Kimberly is the third layer of Hoffman's complex acting performance. Kimberly ironically becomes the voice of middle-aged women fed up with sexual harassment and lecherous men. Hoffman's Kimberly is prim and proper and stylizes her precise movements on the set. She's the piece-de-resistance of Hoffman's characterizations. Although Kimberly is the character most susceptible to a flat stereotypic portrayal. Hoffman makes her as three dimensional as a soap opera character can be, with emotionally delivered and original monologues...
...various facets involved in Hoffman's performance are as founding Under layer number one he plays Dorsey a neurotic actor quickly approaching middle age. We see the tension that propels the desperate Dorsey through all his relationships. Unwilling to conform to other people's ideas, he can't take criticism and rubs his colleagues and friends the wrong way Hoffman shows Dorsey's brittle talent in every detailed highly taut motion. Basically a failure, Dorsey frantically waits tables, instructs a fledgling group of actors, and fights with an agent who can get him any acting stints. Yet glittering of charm...
...minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...
...left on the board is not all there is to the game; nuclear war is a lot messier than that. Though experts debate the precise environmental impact of numerous nuclear explosions (a first strike would require thousands), they are certain of at least two potentially catastrophic effects. The ozone layer, which protects the Earth from lethal ultraviolet radiation, will disintegrate, and vast quantities of deadly radioactive fallout will scatter throughout the atmosphere. The original argument against nuclear war still applies to Soviet strategists. No attacker, no matter how formidable his arsenal, can feel secure triggering these dangers. Only the insane...