Word: sours
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...stockbroker's get-rich-quick scheme goes sour...
...smaller roles, Richard Grusin and Shirley Wilber also deliver telling, pungent performances. Seen most recently as Zoditch in the A.R.T. production of Journey of the Fifth Horse. Grusin demonstrates here his ability to play a balding, affected, overweight Hollywood producer as well as a sour old reader in a 19th-century Russian publishing house. As the mother, Wilbur is appropriately fussy and matronly: Her high nasal whine sounds very good...
...from Wright's recollections of his childhood, or a vulgarity he sees scrawled on a gravestone, to his later experiences with the super-natural and the exotic to what he has learned about Leonardo da Vinci during his life. Often ethereal, sometimes convoluted and tortured, the images crawl or sour quietly off the page, so that Wright doesn't just make you taste a grape--he makes you taste a purple grape, with the world "purple" taking on tinges of sunset, foreign lands, juice on the palate...
From September through December, most consciously absent from the store counters was the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that we have been taught to love. True, there were plenty of carrots and potatoes, but they were soggy; the apples and grapes were sour. Luckily, there are a few markets where farmers are permitted to sell privately the produce cultivated on their own plots. The contrast to the state-run stores was striking. The counters of the market stalls were covered with crisp apples, firm tomatoes, leafy lettuce, crunchy carrots, and of course, mounds of mushrooms. Just...
...male stars act impeccably. Grusin's twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...