Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff Zax gives an excellent performance as Pseudolus, obsessed with one thing: getting his freedom. He conceives a plot to get the girl for his master Hero and his life for himself, circumventing Roman tradition and the captain Miles Gloriosus (among others) in the process. Zax has about one sober moment on stage when, as Prologus, he sets the scene and asks for the blessing of Thespis. But there is a nuttiness in his eyes which leaves you with the feeling that he's not all that serious. It turns out that he wasn...
...conference at least lived up to its name, "A Call to Action." Through three days of sober and sometimes tense deliberations, the delegates passed a sweeping five-year plan for political action in support of such causes as nuclear disarmament and better housing...
...troubles. "Nobody wants to print the fuckin' truth," he says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...
Another French movie, THE CLOCKMAKER, is more sober but similarly slight. Philippe Noiret, a worthy actor with the wistful, befuddled expression of an alpine rescue dog, appears as a widowed father whose son has collaborated in the killing of a factory foreman. The son is on the run with his partner in crime, who is also his girl friend. These two are not even glimpsed until late in the film, where they reveal themselves to be casual about the killing, past the point of indifference. Pop is not a figure of considerable passion either, and The Clockmaker concerns the tentative...
...sober artistry marks The Doctor's Wife as vintage Brian Moore. Sheila Redden may not be as hauntingly memorable as the heroine of Moore's first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1956), but she is the most alluringly complex adulteress to come along in print in some time...