Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense that there is more here than period grace, that this is a piece to be acted, not condescended to. Modern audiences are seldom spoken to as Coward spoke, and there is a great pleasure in making the most...
...anger and models of how to put it to positive work. Most of the female characters in the works Spacks studies are negative models--descriptions of people women don't want to be, the victims of anger and frustration. 'To work and to love" is a prescription which was seldom made for these women, whose fate instead...
...game of a Jimmy Connors or a Margaret Court might be expected to sap too much energy for consistent performances. But the quality of play seldom seems to lose its edge...
...them into cultists in the early '60s--the backlash that follows movie cults is inevitably louder, bitchier and more memorable than the initial shockwave that turns a movie into a classic. For years, these two warning camps have made a lot of noise about Antonioni knowing that moviegoers themselves seldom rely on their own judgment but rather trust the deductions of those who are in a position to release periodic edicts...
...From an Unknown Woman with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. and starting Sunday, Asquith's version of Pygmallon, with Leslie Howard playing Higgins young and tough-as-nails, which sometimes works well. Wendy hiller's Eliza Doolittle is absolutely amazing. Playing with arguably Katherine Hepburn's best work, Summertime, seldom shown. When Hepburn talked to Cavett in those interviews, Summertime was the film she remembered best...