Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...together as an ensemble. Each cast member is so strongly his or her own person that the audience cannot focus on the cast as a whole even during the large production numbers. Furthermore, the show suffers from overenthusiasm--every piece is so heavily choreographed with dramatic, funny or just plain dumb movements that the audience is left wishing that the actors would simply mellow...
...much of this material to Williams instead of Screenwriter Mitch Markowitz. But he has created a smart and intricate context for the star. The station's staff constitutes a sort of awkward squad of the airwaves, commanded by Lieut. Hauk (Bruno Kirby, who lifts nerdiness to a new comic plain), but anchored in patient decency by Private First Class Garlick (Forest Whitaker, who lovably redefines the straight man's role...
...General Secretary extolled Moscow and the great Russian land. "I had hoped for a few extra days for him to see this country," Reagan said. "It just did not work out. He said that he would like to come back and see some of the country. I made it plain to both of the Gorbachevs that one day they should return not for work but just to visit. He said with equal feeling that I must come and see Moscow and the Soviet Union...