Word: overlong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that follows begins with several yards of authentic- sounding , cynical maneuvering in the sleazy process of jury selection and ends, hundreds of pages later, with the question of who actually plugged Richie still disturbingly unresolved. Chiefly because of its villain, the novel is a chilling success. It is also overlong by half and lumbered with a few more plot elements than it needs -- most notably a political feud involving the accused would-be Senator. But the author's characterizations are tough and believable, and his sentences, which tended to wander through purple patches in his first novels, now are spare...
...that Sheik Rahman is in custody, the joke could be over. Or, if the government continues its blundering, Rahman's incarceration could signal the beginning of the third act of this already overlong comedy. There is no doubt that the case has such potential. Though Rahman is wanted in Egypt for inciting a violent anti-government demonstration, the Egyptians haven't seemed eager to take him back...
...DIFFICULT TO call agitprop against South Africa hard-hitting; how many pro-apartheid plays get mounted in the U.S.? But THE SONG OF JACOB ZULU, which Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe brought to Broadway last week, redeems its overlong preachments with Eric Simonson's deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland...
...fault is not all Harlan's though. The production is crippled from the beginning by a meandering, esoteric, overlong script. And Cabranes-Grant's direction--what little is apparent in the performance--doesn't make Creditors more interesting or understandable. As the play winds on, it becomes harder and harder even to care what happens to the love triangle...
...truth of Fielding's novel lie within the actions of these rough-edged characters and the primitive land on which they live. Richardson knew this and knew the importance of resisting the temptation to fill the movie with a dramatic, booming, 32-piece soundtrack and wide, overlong images of the sun setting over the fields and horses of rural England. Instead, he stayed small, as did Fielding more than two centuries earlier...