Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cybill Shepherd's performance is slightly more questionable. In fact, the whole movie is questionable, like one of James's long spiralling sentences, full of commas, semicolons, and dashes--seemingly interminable. Bogdanovich's problem is that he can't capture James's true genius on film; his eloquent logic and perfect grammar which exact a very precise, objectively presented psychological mood...
...principals playing Willy and his wife Linda are very weak. And in a play which pivots so strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which is to say, on something other than what was compelling the characters' attention...
...catches hold of the character and he never lets go the entire time he is on the stage. He has obviously thought through how Happy would sit in a chair, how he would hold a cigarette or pick his teeth, and so there is an economy and an inherent logic to all his movements...
...immigrant who acquired a German-language daily in New York in 1890; though Ridder owns the New York Journal of Commerce, its other properties are located in Western states. Says Bernard H. Ridder Jr., 57, who would continue to run the papers as a Knight-Ridder subsidiary: "The merger logic is simple. We have a good geographical fit, and there's no conflict in circulation...
...bourgeois society has to offer. Her husband is a rich and important man, her home is luxurious and her daughter (by a teenage romance) is intelligent and sympathetic. Despite the rewards of her position, Audran remains an unfulfilled woman; passion is lacking from her life, and, according to the logic of the film, that is the crucial element. The blame for her suffering is placed, rightly enough, on her husband, one of those soulless all-business types who possesses little talent for either love...