Word: put-upon
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...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
...wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic revolutionary country and Communism as the wave of the future in Indochina, if not in the entire developing world. They were outraged by our incursion into Cambodia less because of the alleged extension of the war than because they feared it might lead to success. Concern for the future...
...become deeds, the intrusion of maniac disorderliness on the slickly complacent world of these show people is extraordinarily harrowing. Michael Biehn, as the madman, combines a sort of mad innocence with creepiness very effectively, and there are good bits, as well, by Maureen Stapleton as Bacall's patiently put-upon secretary and by Hector Elizondo as a smart but slightly star-struck...
...meantime, for Brooke, what delights does life hold? "Studies," says Teri firmly. At this point a reporter, digging deep for a question, asks whether there will be a Brooke doll, as there was a Farrah Fawcett doll. "Yeah," says the enchanted child, sounding for the moment like any put-upon teenager. "Wind it up and it goes to school." -By John Skow...
Simon has written funny plays and films, and will again. Jay Sandrich directed TV's finest comedy show, Mary Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis...