Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer...
...Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (2 last week) 2. Cujo, King(1) 3. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley (3) 4. Noble House, Clavell (4) 5. The Legacy, Fast (6) 6. The Third Deadly Sin, Sanders (5) 7. Remembrance, Steel 8. The Last Days of America, Erdman 9. Gorky Park, Smith (10) 10. Goodbye, Janette, Robbins...
...second act, encapsulates the message of the play, "Food is the first thing. Morals follow on." Rarely has the persistence of man's struggle against man been so strikingly captured with words and music. The strength of Bellucci and Hackett, addressing the audience with this particular account of original sin, is electrifying. Nothing more is needed to drive the message through the spectator's heart than the voices of the hardened tart and her procurer, accusing yet beseeching, against the panorama of human misery. Tempted to condemn them, the audience finds itself at fault; it is a hard lesson...
...Third Deadly Sin, Sanders...
Gossip has always had a terrible reputation. A sin against charity, they said, quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...