Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dern, for starters, has too much Pacific Ocean salt in her blond hair, and her lanky good looks are too much a matter of knees and shoulders and elbows. She looks as if she should be playing power forward on the UCLA women's basketball team. That's obvious. But what is on view is not merely the result of 19 years of good groceries. Connie, the girl seduced by the Treat Williams character in Smooth Talk, is supposed to be physical, a fretful, yearning high school sophomore whose lush, gawky body has outgrown the controls of fear and reason...
...this imperfect world, most real problems don't have obvious solutions. The biblical teaching on homosexuality will continue to exist; so will a great many serious, committed Jews, who, looking within themselves, conclude in all honesty that their fundamental sexual nature runs contrary to this teaching. However great the tension, there must be a place for both within the Jewish community. I believe we can find...
...files. One of his most surprising discoveries concerned the "evidence" found in Taylor's bungalow: it had been planted there by Paramount. The studio wanted Taylor portrayed as a Casanova to disguise his homosexual private life. Even more surprising was the fact that the police had barely investigated several obvious leads. Working alone, Vidor traced the crime to its source. But he never made the movie, and never made any use of his more than 650 pages of notes and records...
Another example of the reviewer's carelessness is the obvious misunderstanding of the character of "Patty." Krause writes that Jennifer Joss has mistakenly portrayed Patty as "a shallow, bubbly, valley girl" when she should be an "irritating tomboy." In fact, it is Krause who is mistaken. The character of "Patty" in the musical is based on Schultz's earlier and entirely different character of "Patty," not on the more recent comic strip character, "Peppermint Patty...
...ONLY OTHER FLAW left to pick on is the decidely dodgy quality of Cyrano's nose. This may be splitting nose hairs, as it were, but Cyrano's shnozz is so prominent, both visually and symbolically, that its obvious artificiality detracts mightily from the atmosphere of the play. Not only was the seam obvious from my fourth row seat, but it made Roe sound like an extra in a Dristan commercial. During one of the more tedious sections, I started to hope that the nose would fall off and add some needed comic relief, but it never did--another disappointment...