Word: propsed
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The discrepancy in style and quality of representation between subject and quality of representation between subject and subordinate material is certainly no accident. It is intended to emphasize the important areas in the composition by contrast; but in fact, it only creates a distraction. By abandoning all these props, the...
Victim spends most of its time playing with props, mainly to belabor the notion of space-age IBM barrenness. It wields them clumsily, perhaps because it can't decide whether to have fun with them, as James Bond does, or to use them with unnerving and inscrutable dead-pan, as...
The actors themselves were a pretty dreary lot with the exception of that brilliant clown Paul Benedict and the more-Aryan-than-Thou Larry Bryggman. Jo Lane was tedious in the virtuoso role of "The Jewish Wife" and Ted Kazanoff inadequate as the perplexed Judge in "Quest for Justice." Granted...
Hope Diamond is a pro, but one gets the feeling that she's as much of an efficient businesswoman as a performer, that she draws a paycheck, not like the older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than...
The performance was cursed with an incredibly large number of small but obvious accidents: props broke or became entangled with the actors' clothing, pieces of scenery broke loose, furniture tottered as the characters blundered into it. Many of the mishaps might be passed off as bad luck, but just as...