Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think of him as a somewhat stolid, ruminative artist compared with a virtuoso like Picasso. It's true that there's no erotic content in his work, and little manifest lyricism or spontaneity. He painted with the steady determination, from form to closed form, of a silkworm chewing its way across a mulberry leaf. Much of his work is not Cubist at all, if Cubism means fragmentation. It was massively built and integrated, and it buried all traces of its construction process. But it could also be very surprising, and in its insistent reduction of the human form to mechanics...
...heavy cross-casting, which may initially provoke skepticism, turns out to be a fine idea; the women who play the Thanes of Ross and Lennox--Erin Billings '00, in a strong supporting turn, and Mary Pagones, respectively--are, like Voros's Banquo, stolid, sober figures who maintain the dignity and slight aloofness which characterize the statesmen. Dressed in identical black man-tailored suits, the thanes move through the play like almost interchangeable cogs in a state machine; Voros's more personal characterization of Banquo is what makes the character so much missed. Andres Ramos-Nolasco '99 plays a rather flat...
...solid gags in Frank Oz's deft direction of Paul Rudnick's pointed script, the biggest one is that it's not just Howard who seems gay. So do the teachers, the town barber, Howard's stolid brother. And what exactly is the gay style in a time when bullying machismo rules on the street and on the screen? It is to be pleasant, considerate, gently witty--virtues once celebrated in American life and Hollywood comedies...
...Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They've been doing the heavy acting...
...following scenario is played out daily. Wife and Husband have decided to buy a new family car, their last one having been rendered immobile by the accumulated weight of gum wads, empty juice boxes and broken plastic toys from McDonald's Happy Meals. Do they go with the stolid minivan or the racy sport-ute? They consult consumer guides. They compare prices. They make, if they have the stomach for it, a few desultory visits to a variety of reptilian car salesmen. And they gather promotional brochures...