Word: sags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starring in the poorer skits. Allen loses the involvement that makes his work so funny. He can put the actors through their motions, but without his presence the scripts sag badly, and they are made all the more pale juxtaposed with the skits in which Allen plays the lead. Had Allen limited the movie to his four skits, or substituted the poor ones, with material equal to the funnier four, than he would have created a comic masterpiece. As it is, he has only four-sevenths of a very funny film...
Stoppard pushes this and related theses with antic wordplay, inspired zaniness and crackerjack wit. The evening would sag in spots if it were not for Hordern. What might have been simply a caricature of an absent-minded professor emerges as a warmly affectionate portrait of the last living humanist. And Rigg is lovely to look at, especially in the nude, and to listen to as she delivers her lines with a resolute intelligence that seems to unbend the pretzel twists of thought...
...professional tennis circuit; it was a vicarious victory for all middle-aged athletes who are over the hill or who never even got to the crest. Rosewall (who is nicknamed "Muscles" because of his slight build) won the $50,000 first prize by refusing to sag in a match that was wearing on both body and mind. The five sets lasted for a stamina-sapping three hours and 37 minutes, and the last two sets were decided by the nerve-jangling tiebreaker scoring system. Final score...
Judging from a typical issue this month, Enquirer readers are interested in Richard Burton's anatomical analysis of Liz ("overfull of calories, maybe, but . . . superb of body, not a sag or a wrinkle"). That story was bought from a London paper. Another piece reports claims by some "experts" that "messages from the dead are received by almost 50% of normal people." Pope's audience is told of the supposition that because alcoholic rats drink more in the dark, cocktail lounges keep the lights...
...theater it brings the house to a roar. Which is a tribute to the palpable miracles of timing and inflection that a director like Mike Nichols and an actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically when he thinks of all the love that was denied him and lavished upon Mel when...