Word: sullenness
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They are wonderfully well-matched antagonists, Strike and Rocco. The former is wary, sullen and perhaps more ambivalent about his work than he dares to admit. The latter is bustling, voluble and perhaps more sympathetic toward Strike--with everyone trying to survive in this milieu--than he cares to admit. Clockers is careful not to overexplain these figures. Director Spike Lee, who shares screenplay credit with novelist Richard Price, lets Phifer (in his first film role) and Keitel (in his umpty-umpth) find the characters, which they do with unimprovable unpredictability...
...dubious slinky pants with a phony chaps look, crinoline-shaped frontier skirts and hats that were at least seven gallons. In Paris, Jean-Paul Gaultier, perennial idol of the fashion press, indulged in one of his toughest tart looks ever. Each of his models had one eye blackened, and sullen stares seemed to be a decree. Some of them wore cyberspace-punk bodysuits printed with computer graphics. Still, draped over them were practical coats and jackets-Gaultier's meal ticket...
...classes. Currier Declare your room in the Yard a temple to the God of the lottery. Lock your first-year roommate out, and get used to having a single, Rearrange your furniture to suite yourself. Dunster Shave your head the night Before lottery results. Cultivate a sullen and disaffected air. Eliot Comp the Crimson Key. Kirkland Sorry. Noting but a direct line with God will guarantee you a place here. Leverett Is this really your first choice? Lowell No one's that passionate about Lowell. Don't stress. Mather Drop your clothes and steak through the bathhouse. Streak through...
...scenes between the parents and their sullen Ivy League children benefit, in this production, from the added irony that it is the audience itself, Harvard students, which is being satirized on stage. The awfulness of these kids is so over the top that we can't help laughing at ourselves. It is curious to note in these scenes that the Harvard students playing parents actually do look older than the Harvard students playing Harvard students; the credit for this is due at least in part to Costume Designer Amy Bamberg, who clothes the actors with the exact attention to class...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...