Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed a union at the cotton mill, which has passed from the hands of the Prince family and is now owned by a distant conglomerate. Even stay-at-home Sally and her lug of a husband are ruffled by newfangled ideas. Sally decides that she wants a career...
Meese, who likes to lug home a bulging briefcase, concentrates on developing policy positions; Baker, who scorns paperwork, keeps a sharp eye on political affairs; Deaver is the devoted guardian and shaper of Reagan's schedule. Says one aide who has watched them closely: "No one can put himself in the President's shoes, when it comes to personal and many political considerations, the way Deaver can. No one can put himself in the President's mind, when it comes to difficult policy questions, the way Meese...
Commedia del l'arte is renowned for its blend of spontaneity and old hat--stock characters, stock situations, stock slapstick bits continually reshaped according to the whims of its experienced performers and the peculiarities of the audience and the space. At the beginning of this production, when the actors lug in part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb...
What inspires these people to take to the wilderness? Why do they lug 50-lb. Packs over mile after blistery mile, mosquito-bitten, sweaty, dizzy from the heat or the altitude? Why do they suffer bitter nights on rocky ledges under freezing drizzles...
...than two incidents--director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Bo Goldman have fashioned a movie of extraordinary warmth and affection. Melvin and Howard is a neon Vermeer, a sensitive and funny look at the absurdities of late 20th-century American life in the far west. Demme looks at this amiable lug chased by a pot of gold not with condescension, but with wondrous incomprehension...