Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would also be inaccurate to call Floyd Lloyd's strength instrumentals. The album's three entirely instrumental tracks, all recorded with the group the Potato 5, are not successful. Instead of featuring interesting instrumental solos or themes, these songs provide a sort of base rhythm. Reminiscent of songs that carry the melody in the vocal with the vocal part suddenly removed, the musical themes demonstrated here could serve as the foundation for more complex and complete pieces, but as they are, the songs are tedious...
Linda Lavin, as Mrs. Van Daan, stands out in the play's showiest role: her Mrs. Van Daan is an irrepressible chatterer, energetically discussing her flirtatious past and the superior quality of her potato latkes, but she's also worldly-wise--a popular characterization of a Jewish mother. Austin Pendleton makes Mr. Dussel both droll and sympathetic. As Otto Frank, George Hearn does come across as a caring and protective father figure, but one oddly formal with his family: his diction is too consistently calm and collected, in a situation of such tremendous pressure, to be convincing. Sophie Hayden...
...film's cropping is so tight that it excludes any human involvement, and ordinary household objects become screen stars before our mesmerized eyes. A potato warrior, two kitchen knives tied to its back, plunges down a ramp and a lazy tire hops aboard a tiny wheeled cart, only to glide a little further before hitting its target. The elaborate set-up is at once a marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will...
...finally, forget fast track ? get on the Couch Potato track to video entertainment. More
...Couch Potato Man will now do his bit for free trade...