Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake. It exaggerates the problems of working in the Loeb because it breaks up the illusion. A band of soldiers, for example, parading down the center aisle, calls attention to the linoleum on the floor and the exit signs above the doors near which they enter. The shallow sets destroy the sense of a world around the actors. Flats too far forward make the action seem two-dimension, which undercuts whatever believability the actors have given the play. The stylized sets in the three spring productions also enhanced the artificiality...
...most charitably be described as a creative pause. His milieu is comfortable, upper-middle-class Italy. His characters are dead souls, stifled with boredom and loneliness, who wander their existential wasteland groaning under the stylish burdens of too much money, too much leisure, too little heart. The women are shallow, complacent, cruel; the men are feeble, nervous, dependent; all fritter away their lives in a little hectic experiment that the protagonists like to call love. Moravia calls it torture, but he believes it is necessary torture...
Hank Williams wrote his own epitaph many times over, with simple guitar accompaniment. In this shallow tribute, the singing voice on the sound track belongs to his 16-year-old son Hank Jr., who lends a few notes of distinction to a movie that is better heard than seen...
...reportedly to meet with anti-Salazar conspirators in Spain. Except for a few postcards, the last one mailed from the Spanish town of Badajoz on the Portuguese border, Delgado was not heard from again. Last month, two small boys passing through a eucalyptus grove near Badajoz stumbled upon two shallow graves, one containing the corpse of a man whose face and fingers were disfigured. In the other lay the half-naked body of a woman. Both had been murdered by heavy blows on the skull...
...Yale Shallow...