Word: lengthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson has to play back-to-back weekend doubleheaders in full-length parkas. And that's when...
Bonn and Moscow have been at arm's length for five years, ever since West Germany agreed to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S.S.R. The gulf widened in 1986 when Kohl compared Gorbachev with the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Now the missiles are going, and Gorbachev has evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade...
...weak and uncreative blocking in this scene and others serves as a reminder that Cocktail Party is Todd Brun's first attempt at directing a full-length play. But while Brun's direction generally leaves something to be desired, he has moments of genuine promise. The scenes with Edward and the Uninvited Guest (Jeff Hass) and the confrontation scene between Edward and Lavinia (Ginny Marston) are wonderful. These scenes obviously are the product of talented directing as well as good acting...
...present in his earlier four-hour-plus documentaries on the Nazis, The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) and The Memory of Justice (1976). But The Sorrow and the Pity was, like a great realistic novel, dependent for its force on the patient, even repetitive, accretion of detail. By now, length and weight have become an end in itself for Ophuls, a way of enforcing the audience's commitment to his work. Anything that demands this much of us cannot be casually dismissed. Too much, though, is streaked with irrelevancies: digressions and dubious stock footage; interviews with people who have...
...Jackson is in a bit of a bind: as the Democratic campaign has foundered, he has been blamed for doing too little and too much. When the original Dukakis game plan was to lure white Reagan Democrats and Southerners back into the fold, Jackson was kept at arm's length. Dukakis planners drew up a list of places they wanted him to visit, pointedly excluding the states Jackson had won during the primaries. Only when George Bush sprinted ahead in the polls did Dukakis' reinstated campaign chief John Sasso ostentatiously seek Jackson...