Word: stiltedness
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As a young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak -- stilted language with ( many references to nature ("It was in the moon of the red grass...
Lightly comic and pleasantly distracting as it is, however, "Bullets Over Broadway" cannot escape the mark of Allen's touch. If his philosophical bent is subdued, his style is not: Cusack bumbles about for much of the picture looking as if he is the slightly stilted son of Fielding Mellish...
Walcott, the Nobel-winning West Indian poet whose 8,000-line Omeros hijacked Homer to the Caribbean, here packs the major events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a...
When he decided he was ready to come out, he was heartened by the support he found from his friends. "I didn't expect it. From movies you have a stuffy, stilted image about Harvard. I had no idea the whole area was as liberal as it was....Harvard is...
Garzone puts down his sax case and goes through a door to the other half of The Willow--the bar. When he opens the door, the TV can be heard on top of some stilted conversation. There's only one person at the bar when Garzone buys a scratch ticket...