Word: sullenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are actors; they find great scenes between the cushions of O'Neill's rhetoric. This is why dramas like Anna Christie -- ponderous artifacts stocked with sullen, logorrheic characters -- are so often revived, with such imposing casts. Jason Robards has long fanned the flame on Broadway, / and London has seen many winning revivals: the Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms with Colin Firth and Carmen Du Sautoy, A Touch of the Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays...
...actors, and for the record, the acting was pretty good. Henry Wiley did a good job as the title character, a homeless teenager. He managed to be alienated and troubled without being sullen. Older actors James Morgan and Connie Dawson gave especially lively readings as a restauranteur and a bag lady, respectively. Most of the other parts didn't get much stage time, but everyone was consistent and fairly appealing. I wouldn't mind watching them again...
...jack. It becomes clear to his parents (who knew nothing about the girlfriend) and younger sister that he is probably guilty, though when he is caught after several days, he refuses to say a word. The lawyer they hire isn't encouraging. Local peasants mutter and look sullen...
There is a new style in European cinema -- finally. For three decades, since Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Bresson made anomie fashionable, European directors have dreamed -- or nightmared -- small. Their movies are dyspeptic miniatures: people sitting at a kitchen table, silent, sullen, waiting for the worst. Everybody, on both sides of the camera, has the glums. The camerabatic dazzle of, say, the French New Wave is now politically incorrect -- as if displaying any effervescence of imagination would betray a yearning for Hollywood's technical and narrative know-how. So the European cinema has aged like a movie star who retired decades...
...teenage drug dealers, sullen and silent, sit nearby. Moments before their arrest, they had forced Antwan to hide their wares in his socks. "That's usually what they do now -- give the stuff to a little kid," says arresting officer Ed Bochniak, who watched the deal go down. "We were lucky...