Word: skillfull
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Mrs. Kennedy manipulates symbols without saying anything new about her dead white intellectuals or the tormented Negro who cannot escape their values. She creates one character, at most. But she has provided a vehicle for atmosphere, and by skillful direction and acting the Theatre Company of Boston saturates she small...
In the end, it is the reliance on diction and neglect of theatricality that makes Danton a bore. No one's timing is good. The guillotining scene is no more than a babble of voices; Herault-Sechelles' last line is almost lost. Danton's is. The skillful performances of Chapman...
Perhaps the most impressive single performance of the production was Marietta Stevenson's portrayal of the girl. Miss Stevenson is a fine dancer and actress. But most important, she seems to radiate personality from the stage. Ron Porter, the painter, was as expressive here as he was skillful and facile...
But here comes summer. Compulsive skiing, like any other addiction, has withdrawal symptoms. Lenny is driven down below the retreating snow line to scrounge a living however he can: below 5,000 ft., after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality...
While even skillful cameramen cannot transform Bates's boringly vacant expressions, elsewhere the photography is superb. It captures the harshness of the landscape and the flowers which spring up at Easter time. And it focuses on the expressions of the people of Crete (thus listed in the credits!).