Word: pallidly
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SOME AMERICANS ABROAD. Hard as it is to imagine why anyone thought the pretensions and crotchets of some second-rate college professors on tour in England would make a play, it's harder still to comprehend why the deadly dull result is transferring to Broadway. It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better...
...Licence to Kill, the bad guys' hideaway blows up real good too. And there are some great truck stunts. A pity nobody -- not writers Michael G. Wilson , and Richard Maibaum nor director John Glen -- thought to give the humans anything very clever to do. The Bond women are pallid mannequins, and so is the misused Dalton -- a moving target in a Savile Row suit. For every plausible reason, he looks as bored in his second Bond film as Sean Connery did in his sixth...
Bush was frustrated. Deeply stung by domestic and allied criticism that he was drifting into a policy of pallid reaction to Kremlin moves, disappointed in the much touted "review" of Soviet policy that advised only a timid "status quo plus," Bush finally found the urge for action. More important, Baker returned from Moscow convinced that the Soviets were "really serious" about transforming the conventional balance. Gorbachev had laid out a forthcoming Soviet offer that looked as if it would produce both a propaganda coup and an opening for negotiations. Says a senior White House official: "Baker had a feeling that...
...peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions who felt they had known...
...suburban Ohio's Westerburg High, a quartet of teen princesses runs the school. They are called the Heathers, because three of the four are named Heather. The fourth, Veronica (Winona Ryder, pallid of face and sharp as Cheddar), is at first pleased to be accepted by this "bunch of Swatch dogs and Diet Coke heads. They're, like, people I work with, and our job is being popular." Still, she is ready for a sinister avenging force in her life, a juvenile delinquent, a James Dean. He turns out to be J.D., a new boy in town who is itching...