Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council is the representative body of the student community. In condemning the council's action, the majority opinion summarily dismisses what is, in fact, a fairly (if not always prudently) elected student government. For better or worse, we have chosen council members for the kind of role the Corporation is now calling on them to perform...
...only is the plot hackneyed, so are most of the characters, ranging from the affable old lady (that smiles benevolently throughout the whole movie like a catatonic overgrown Cabbage Patch doll) to the good natured town drunk/basketball maven, played by Dennis Hopper. While certainly a change from his role of homicidal maniac in Blue Velvet, Hopper's performance--though often rather forced--has easily the most depth of any in the movie. His controlled energy and powerful screen presence do much to stabilize the film...
...provides in Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...
...just when you think you've got DeLillo's intentions pinned down, he'll toss a thematic spitball and twist his meaning 180 degrees. The second act is a cracked mirror image of the first, as cunning and elaborate systems of role-playing and deception are peeled away, audience and cast alike slipping and sliding on the intellectual banana skins littered about the stage...
BOSTON--Critics of the Seabrook nuclear power plant lashed out yesterday at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's preliminary decision to limit the role of governors in emergency planning for nuclear power plants...