Word: subterranean
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...boffo headliner and a friendly audience in the hall. But then the plot thins. For the first time since 1972, neither spot on the ticket needs to be filled. There are no renegades challenging the incumbent, no festering party feuds. The few philosophical conflicts that do exist are subterranean, more likely to be peaceably resolved in the dim light of back rooms than in the glare of prime time. So confident is President Reagan of a congenial coronation that he will not even arrive in town until Wednesday, the day of his nomination...
...pitch and tempo of farce. Frenzy worked fine for Director George C. Scott in his production of Coward's Present Laughter two years ago. Not so here, where the bonhomie is so forced that it comes across as bullying. Though Langella and Julia occasionally mine the text for subterranean veins of grace and melancholy, Clayburgh storms about with the booming baritone and great-lady gestures of a strung-out dowager. One yearns for the buoyant charm that Vanessa Redgrave brought to the role in a 1973 London revival. But charm, alas, cannot be learned, earned or rented...
...Storyville, in scenic Kenmore Square, both feature bad ambience and good local and national acts. The Rat is preferable for its recently opened bar and bistro just above the subterranean club...
...pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only at midpoint, then withdraws into tart anticlimax. It takes a second or third hearing for ballads like Finishing the Hat, Beautiful and Sunday to betray subterranean seisms of feeling: ironic, wistful, profound, possessed. A heart beats under that starched shirt...
...that a thorough revamping of the museum was possible without changing any of the existing architecture. The key: the creation of new space underground, a solution that, in various forms, had been urged before by other architects. Pei's plan calls for an extensive, 750,000-sq.-ft. subterranean level, including a grand entrance hall, shops, restaurants, audiovisual theaters, storage spaces and a parking area...