Word: soullessness
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Michael Bennett's new musical, Dream Girls, makes one wonder if his hit A Chorus Line was merely a fluke. Although Girls chronicles the rise and fall of a singing group based loosely on the Supremes, it remains an essentially soulless show...
...series has its share of crafty scene stealers (Warren Gates, Lloyd Bridges, Soon-Teck Oh) and shameless scenery chewers, including Timothy Carey, Nicholas Pryor and Jane Seymour as Adam's soulless wife Cathy. There is one wonderful actress: Karen Allen as Cal's girl Abra...
...children (Heather Bicknell, Andrew Fenwick) are spirited away. The Government not only refuses to tell Hacklin what has become of his children, it blocks his efforts to find them. The conspiracy is expensive and sophisticated; Hacklin is poor and simple. But Caan refuses to heighten this classic confrontation between soulless bureaucracy and the individual who has no weapons on his side. Dramatically, the underplaying of Hacklin's frustrations may be a mistake; one yearns for a scene in which Caan busts loose, gives full vent to his pain and anger. Yet there is something touching in his patience...
Conservative critics, meanwhile have focused their anger on the breaking of diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) government. They accuse Carter of committing an act of base treachery by sacrificing Taiwan in its support for soulless Communism. George Will in the Washington Post claimed the "Taiwan question is: How shall Taiwan's liberty be extinguished?" For both supporters and opponents of the new ties with China, the relationship represents a fundamental shift in United States goals in Asia. The conservatives believe the recognition of the People's Republic signals the end of U.S. attempts to contain Communism, while...
...Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted...