Word: spiritlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
...raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were leaderless and spiritless...
...second period was 20 minutes of sloppy, spiritless hockey punctuated only by a fluke goal awarded to B.U.'s Pete McLachlan at 18:15. Fitzsimmons and Crimson defenseman Don Grimble both dived to cover the Terrier co-captain's shot, but they only succeeded in knocking the puck over the goal line...
...knows better. The play's plot and characters are assembled from the Kopit-Albee playmaking kit. Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter wore in Oh Dad; Sigfrid half chokes her to death...
Madison Square Garden for another spiritless performance. Toward week's end, in Dayton, the President got a thunderous greeting from street crowds. But he also found people carrying crude signs alluding to the Jenkins story...