Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limp Spirit. To round up his personal critics' circle, Merrick and Pressagent Harvey Sabinson used telephone directories and similar sources. They took the shadow critics to the show, and Merrick claimed that all of them liked it. The shades were fed and pampered at Sardi's and the Plaza. "We all worked on their statements," says Pressagent Sabinson...
...daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
...problems, the problems of a woman young enough to want a man but too old to attract one, are the subject and substance of this picture, an adaptation of the only novel ever published by Playwright Tennessee Williams (TIME, Oct. 30, 1950). It was a rather limp novel, and this is sometimes a rather limp picture, but Actress Leigh comes out of it with laurels refreshed and a new screen career before...
...pocket-Stalinist regime has done little for Albania's limp economy. The few paved roads and sizable buildings are relics of the Italian occupation. There are no private cars or buses; Albanians travel from village to village by donkey or in open trucks. The only railroad is scarcely 70 miles long, and the main seaport at Durres can unload only one ship at a time...
...public's preference for normality, seem to be writing about heterosexuals, but do so in a homosexual way. In such plays, he writes, the female is frequently "a fantastically consuming monster or an incredibly pathetic drab." and the male is "a ragingly lustful beast or a limp, handsome, neutral creature of otherworldly purity." The homosexual's view of human relations distorts normal man-woman situations, and "the audience senses rot at the drama's core...