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...scenery flats and starched aprons cannot mug for the audience or recite witty lines. Scenic and vocal delights pale when the direction is drab and comic potential ignored. Although the company's voices are strong and clear, they may as well be disembodied. The staging is sometimes pedestrian, and there is a peculiar reluctance to ham up the show...
...film points to a considerable amount of insight and sensitivity, the motifs are at times carried out in a clumsy fashion. Short Eyes's mea culpa about his perverse affinity for young girls is riddled with cliches, and Davison's acting in the title role approaches the pedestrian throughout the narrative, making the character look like just another wimp with a kinky habit...
...what he usually does: he made something up-in this case the word zunch. "Zunch is the magic that stays with the watchers after we are done. Zunch is opening up. Turning the burner on. Going beyond. Isn't that what makes a dancer out of a pedestrian?" And a wizard out of a choreographer...
...night. Buses also serve suburban areas every one or two hours (daytime). Eight commuter airlines, charter helicopter service to Midway Airport and Meigs Field. Parking: easy. New close-in facility with 9,200 spaces. Flow Through: smooth. Sidewalk checkin. Insufficient baggage carts. Three terminals linked by five underground pedestrian tunnels (two longest have 255-ft. moving sidewalks), also by shuttle buses. Longest walk between entrance and plane: 1,800 ft. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: sufficient. At least twelve hotels within 10 min. of airport, the O'Hare Hilton reached by moving sidewalk. Amenities: ordinary. Comfortable boarding lounges. Adequate snack...
About 400 individuals and representatives of more than 100 businesses in the Square have signed petitions in support of performers' right to perform provided they do not obstruct pedestrian traffic...