Word: stiltedness
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For some listeners, the yearning lyricism of the romantic composers can be painfully sweet, if not unbearably sentimental. Good music teachers often warn their students that romantic pieces are the most difficult to perform because their melodies are so unabashedly pleasing. If played with too much enthusiasm, Schubert can go...
Even if Elaine Stritch had not set a new standard for the one-woman stage memoir, Arthur's look back at her career would be a lame specimen of the genre. Instead of a freestyle skate, Arthur settles for the compulsory short program: a once-over-lightly reprise of her...
When she formally announces her candidacy for the U.S. Senate this week from her home state of North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole will become the instant front runner. The most recent public poll, conducted earlier this month, showed her clobbering her most likely Democratic opponent, Clinton-era White House chief of...
Granted, any dialogue in which Costner is trying to carry half the burden is going to be excruciating, but several exchanges in the film leave one wondering where to place the blame—on the stilted script or the poor acting. At one point, Darrow walks up to a...
At the solemn, stilted receptions following the memorials, the men and women took to opposite corners of the room. "We'd kind of huddle together and ask how each other's husbands were taking everything," explains E.J. "Some couldn't sleep or were having nightmares."