Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Where the Buffalo Roam does not do justice to the good doctor and his outlandish escapades. Director Art Linson and writer John Kaye have created a mess. Not knowing whether they wanted to turn Thompson's life into a wild and crazy comedy or a trenchant attack on the insanity of the American political and judicial systems, they've made a film which isn't funny enough to be a good farce or insightful enough to be good social commentary. Where the Buffalo Roam has no unifying theme, no cohesive structure, and no method to its madness...
...glib. Everyone is very glib and clever and no real commitment to dealing with the problems of American machismo and militarism is made. The characters are intellectual enough (graduate students at Harvard, dropping allusions to Heidegger and Hemingway!) that only intellectuals will read the story; yet they are redneckedly outlandish enough (bowling and slinging semi-automatic weapons) that they will not challenge any intellectuals to consider their own personal role in the process. Their very redneckedness is in fact romanticized, made "Hip" in the way Millett wrote. In short, Attanasio has created a clever (tiresome) string of one-liners that...
...outlandish dramatic style requires deeply emotional acting which the Reality's company fortunately delivers. As Emma, Kathleen Patrick brims with the newly-found sexual energy (she is in the midst of her first period) of a frustrated 4-H girl who wants to be an auto mechanic in Baja California. Patrick displays exquisite timing and movement in this portrait of innocence giving way to restlessness--her soliloquy to the empty refrigerator rings both poignant and hilarious...
...exhibit, for all its slick and professional presentation, can not convey the experience of seeing these works in their subterranean homes. We see four rooms of scaled drawings, meticulous models, and sample fragments. What we get is four subway stations filled with some pretty outlandish ideas...
...animals and other fable characters, they present allegories for modern business situations that cannot be considered "subtle." The fables are hard-driving. One declares that "nothing cripples innovation and enterprise like heavy-handed regulation." Another describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant who "moves huge boulders and lifts great trees" to find watering holes for its fellow animals. The animals banish the elephant, accusing it of drinking more than its share of water, not realizing that...