Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degree of diffidence that borders on catatonia: "I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm cubbyhole, I can slip." Another of Walser's monologists has a job but finds it pointless: "My life till now seems to have been fairly empty, and the certainty that it will remain empty gives a feeling of endlessness, a feeling which tells one to go to sleep, and to do only the most...
...this month, all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England, CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance: Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale-come-true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenberg...
...Ullmann is Mrs. Alving, who must watch her dead past revive, her dreams destroyed and her only son slip into syphilitic madness, all in a day. As Ullmann has proved under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, she is an actress of depth and stature. This time, however, she seems mostly at sea, or up the fjord. Director John Neville (who also chews through the role of Pastor Manders) has staged Ibsen as if the playwright were the resident bard of the Vincent Crummies Acting Company from Nicholas Nickleby: all pregnant pauses, awkward gestures, broad hints and unexpected laughs. Neville...
Despite the repression, the people are fighting back. A police captain told me that every single day the Tehran police find one or two bodies of government officials or Islamic Guards, blindfolded, manacled and shot in the head by urban guerrillas. All such bodies have a slip of paper attached, declaring that the victim has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by the "People's Court...
...they had spent their lives at Saturday kiddie matinees. In The Breathing Method, an old physician sits in an exclusive Manhattan club, spinning a long-ago yarn. He recalls the terror he once saw on the face of an ambulance driver, "His eyes widening until it seemed they must slip from their orbits and simply dangle from their optic nerves like grotesque seeing...