Word: shapelessly
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...genius for sailing, but it may be that he has just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner asks. "Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit that inch to Affirmed's young jockey...
THIS IS NOT fair. A movie traditionally sets up a problem and then lets you watch the characters try to solve it. Arnold just stomps the problem into shapeless bits. Imagine that right after Rhett sees Scarlett at the party at Twelve Oaks he grabs her, drags her off, and rapes her. Brutal, horrible, you bet, but it gets you right to the credits...
...innocent chore of taking out the Gladney garbage: Was this ours? Did it belong to us? I took the bag out to the garage and emptied it. The compressed bulk sat there like an ironic modern sculpture, massive, squat, mocking ... I picked through it item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and perhaps shameful secrets. Why did I feel like a household spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues to secret yearnings, humiliating flaws...
...aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...
There is little danger that viewers will mistake The Atlanta Child Murders for good drama; its narrative is frequently shapeless and clumsy as well as sanctimonious. The trouble is that many will mistake it for the truth. The film's verdict will most likely stand unchallenged; unless The Atlanta Child Murders draws ratings on the order of Roots, TV will not plow this ground again. "What frightens me," says Gail Epstein, who reported on the case for the Atlanta Constitution, "is that people across America will see the movie and think that this is what really happened...