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Among the film’s redeeming features are several outstanding performances. Delroy Lindo plays Bobby Blane, Moore’s earnest, loyal and dependable comrade-in-arms. Though his character is limiting and static, Lindo remains charismatic and likeable. Ricky Jay’s performance is also noteworthy; the Mamet regular portrays third man Don Pincus, a consummate professional who is willing to get hit by a car to buy his accomplices time. The soft-spoken Jay is elegant and convincing in a role that, though small, becomes very crucial to the plot of the film...
...basic is an outline, as those that are found in children’s coloring books. More complex is the practice of fingerpainting, which captures more of the hand’s individuality: its lines, its valleys and its asymmetry. Yet like the outline, the imprint is still a static representation, freezing a child’s growing hand in a moment of its development...
...college hockey has now expanded to 29 Division One teams and three leagues with at least eight teams (there is a fourth conference, the Great Lakes Women’s Hockey League with only three members), the number of women’s hockey tournament berths has remained static at four...
...direction by professional director Demers is crisp and solid. The only problem is that Behn’s script leaves the stage more crowded than necessary; frequently, several actors are on stage with only a couple involved in the action. Consequently, the production feels more static than it should. Similarly, the musical interludes during set changes are a bit too long—ordinarily this would be a small detail, but in a play of such length any loss of momentum is crucial...
...time the sun rose one hour late on Sunday morning, everything was back to normal in dreary, static Harvard. The costumes came off, the football players returned to practice across the river, the musicians retreated to rehearsal and I strolled back to The Crimson. We all seem to return to the comfortable...