Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best, she haunts the sparsely dressed stage clutching her most expensive handbag and making small talk so joyfully that the audience, knowing the harsh realities Flora is hiding, cannot help but shiver. At times, her simple charm can become aggravating. Twenty-Seven Wagons is not one of Williams' greatest short plays. As in many of his shorter works, he tends to overstate his point. But Brodesser speaks with such conviction that Flora's penchant for repetition seems more like a necessary part of her personality than a flaw in the text. By the time she delivers her final monologue...
...Told You Once, reads more like a disjointed Folklore and Mythology course text. Before embarking on the novel, she commented, "I have to outline it before I start, which kind of takes the fun out of it." This is close to what actually happened, for while her collection of short stories, Flying Leap, received critical acclaim, If I Told You Once lacks the candor, unexpected plots and zany characterizations of her first work. Budnitz's new book emerges as a poorly conceived attempt to weave together mysticism and dramatic human relationships, taking reckless stylistic risks in the process...
...That technological possibility of us being entertained totally alone comes with the Internet, with TV and multiple cable channels. That technological capability in the short run allows us to get exactly what we want--exactly what we want alone." However, Putnam claims, in getting one thing that we want, we lose something that we need--the social interaction that used to come with a performance...
...suggestion that my problem stems from having an extreme Scully-complex. They've concluded that I kind of look like her (debatable), so I must actually want to be her. I disagree wholeheartedly, though I must admit that it is nice to see someone else who's as short as I am kicking ass on a weekly basis. And how much fun would it be to get to carry a gun and flash that FBI badge all the time...
...also find that there is a real allure to the technical production of the show; perhaps I'm so enamoured with it because it feels less like traditional television and more like a movie short. The camerawork and set design are an unpredictable mix of slick sophistication and base grittiness. Main characters are perpetually dressed in impeccable Armani suits, the background music is of epic quality, and the plotlines are complex and multi-layered. At the same time, the aforementioned campiness has a tendency to descend to an almost amateurish level. The opening sequence, which hasn't changed since...