Word: stiltedness
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Last year's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hedda Gabler has been transferred to the screen for reasons that remain mysterious. This is stolid, stilted Ibsen performed by a gallery of waxworks. The movie preserves Glenda Jackson's Hedda for posterity. Posterity has no choice but to accept...
That genius of the vulgar, Harry Cohn, always refused to permit movies about the American Revolution to be made on his Columbia Pictures lot. He believed that men in knee breeches and powdered wigs, spouting the stilted locutions of the 18th century, looked and sounded too silly for audiences to...
What the show demonstrates, however, is that art theory plus craft does not equal art. Each of Kupka's major works is hung so that it is prefaced by a group of his preparatory line and color studies. Too often, in the progression from the fluent immediacy of the crayon...
Her drama is composed in free verse with a tendency to impose unnatural breaks in the dialogue. Particularly in "Fire Exit," set in a burlesque house, the language sounds stilted, as though the characters were parodying the contrived and choreographed world of their jobs. She deliberately scatters cliches through the...
Applicants arrive the night before the interview for a cocktail party that Kinsley describes as "absolutely nightmarish." Applicants and interviewers are expected to mingle. Rice says he finds the parties a good chance to get to know the applicant's strong points, but a little book at the OGCP with...