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...Shady Business” is not a play for the ages, but it doesn’t count that achievement among its goals. If slight in both running time and content, “Shady Business” achieves when it functions as an entertaining production—pleasant, if not particularly memorable and amusing, if not uproariously hilarious...
Solo: Uh, had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now. Thank you. How are you? [Ford winces perfectly at this point...
Toward the end of the race, the Crimson suffered a slight slip-up—one over which neither Penn nor Navy had any control...
...person, Solondz is stooped and balding with large-framed glasses that magnify his eyes to a bulgingly, distracting level. His slight nervous stutter, nebbish Jewishness, self-mocking, and ingratiating demeanor combine to resemble Woody Allen, an impression mostly confirmed throughout the conversation. Solondz is, in reality, the scion of a middle-class family. He grew up in suburban New Jersey and went to Yale and NYU film school. The only dissonance to the impression of a younger Woody is when an interviewer probes his work and its relationship to his personality; then, he starts resembling an older Woody with...
Click has a slight southern accent. He drops the g’s at the end of his words, so that going becomes goin’, talking becomes talkin’. He draws out his vowel sounds. The middle ‘a’ in Atlanta, his current hometown, is drawn out slowly...