Word: rather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equally rapid change of tactics behind each line. Glengarry Glen Ross follows in the playwright's tradition of plays such as Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Buffalo, famous for the fast-paced, in-your-face language that Mamet prefers to call "poetry" rather than realism. Ruiz directs his cast according to Mamet's concept of "practical aesthetics," which emphasizes intention and reaction. The actor's mind must work quickly, switching from one tactic to another in order to get what he wants. Although there are moments where the actors seem to lose the freshness...
...particular. Depalowski is the flattest, most stereo-typical, most singularly bland villain imaginable. The three Canadians, despite interesting flashes, are really nothing more than ornament to the film. And Martin, in Jewison's single-minded determination to parallel his story to Carter's, becomes no more than a rather tedious character...
...Rather than focusing on the atrocities that continue to take place in the world's conflict zones, the conference delegates spoke with an air of optimism about the potential for progress initiatives like the conference represent...
...faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the "liberation movement." Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...