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DAVID LYNCH'S FILMS leave you dishrag limp and beyond commentary. Blue Velvet, his new movie, a "mystery thriller" analogous to Alfred Hitchcock's "family drama" Psycho, should come with seatbelts, or restraining harnesses, whatever it takes to keep the overwhelmed viewer from being sucked into all the utter energy on the screen...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

SILVER MYLAR balloons that looked like enormous, limp Fenway Franks. Whale noises. Forty-two and one-half seconds of fireworks...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Picking the Right Gift | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...director Ronni Marshak, using a mixed bag of students, alumni and professional actors, has provided only a competent illustration of the operetta, animating the characters and plot, but failing to provide the imagination necessary to save the unhappy Yeomen. Choreography is drab and activity limp. When the show succeeds, it is through the rarely faltering cleverness of Bill Gilbert and Art Sullivan, who have never failed to provide enticing verbal and musical strands...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Little Nice Music | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

Various police reports say the woman is about 30 years old, with a slight limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWA Bombing Suspect Fled to Beirut | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

...agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...drunk" manage to elicit the requisite Ms. Manners half-smile and hollow titter from a tired audience...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: IRS Fails to Tax Imagination | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

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