Word: pallidity
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Unfortunately, the deadest characters in Marnie are the live ones, for they are only skeletons fleshed with syndromes. As the patient husband, Connery performs with pallid competence, uncertain whether his role requires him to be a compulsive armchair analyst or a sadist in love. He seems to yearn for the patently farfetched heroics he has enjoyed as James Bond in From Russia With Love. Actress Hedren, obviously groomed for stardom by the Master, zips through some 32 costume changes without seriously ruffling her composure. Hitchcock's elegant cinematic style, evident here and there, seems wasted in a melange...
...breeze, and the exhaust-laden air is trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
...each resort the Mods, who ride scooters and call their girls "birds," pitched camp at one end of the beach. The Rockers, who care more for their motorcycles than their birds, formed a tight rectangle at the other end. With jackets incongruously zipped up despite the sun, the pallid, scruffy youths looked like a colony of sea slugs washed in by the tide...
...education program is neither an education nor adult. Hence the unique reputation of Columbia University's School of General Studies, where a student body of 4,000 housewives, executives and workers, as well as under graduates who have switched from other colleges, has instilled scholarly vigor into the pallid pastiche that often passes for adulted...
...this is just about all the production has to offer. What would have been a fine background for an inspired Caesar seems wasted on pallid acting and stagecraft. Never is there an ingenious answer to the technical problems the play poses. Rarely does the acting become sharp; it never becomes inspired...