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Vezzo's salon, which used to be a very nondescript establishment, boasts 20 red leatherette barber chairs, and the young customers wait in line seven days a week. The elaborate cuts start at only $6 for men and $8 for women. The atmosphere is, as they say, informal. "There's no etiquette here," says Vezzo. "I keep a baseball bat next to the door in case there's trouble...
...with others suspected of involvement in the "pizza connection," probably prevented a bloody New York gang war. It also brought an abrupt end to Bonventre's rapid rise. Before the police could arrest him, he abandoned his $50,000 Ferrari and drove away into the night in a nondescript blue Buick that was registered to no one important...
Moreover, Impulse successfully sets itself apart from ordinary thrillers by legitimately developing its plot and characters. For the most part, the characters in this film come across as real, and if the acting is somewhat nondescript, the tempo at least keeps things from getting dull. In fact, because relationships and conflicts crop up so intensely fast, it is easy initially to mistake Impulse for a drama rather than a psychological thriller...
There are quite a few virtues to Fly Away Home, most of them involving Daria herself. Initially nondescript, she begins to emerge as a witty and complex person, we discover her only as she discovers herself. Unfortunately, none of the other characters is nearly as well-conceived, with, the exception of Daria's new lover, Tom. However, most of the male characters. Ross in particular, are saddled with flat, awkward, cliched lines. Ross in constantly telling Daria that he needs his own space, needs to discover who he is, and that she is stifling...
...hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife who is a shrewd, forceful lawyer and a white husband so nearly nondescript as to be invisible...