Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idyllic world of Ah, Wilderness never existed. No town was ever this innocent, no family this sweet. Yet the actors work well with their sentimental material; they play off one another well. Since Ah, Wilderness rests on family love, the fine ensemble acting--rare in a Harvard production--redeems O'Neill's saccharine morality. We believe this family loves one another, even though we know love doesn't in real life, automatically prevail...
...sympathy for her subject is discernible on very page, Fraser doesn't sentimentalize the story as she did in Mary, Queen of Scots. The difference between her treatment of Mary and her great-grandson may be that Fraser identified with Mary. The earlier biography is glorificatory and sickeningly sweet. Fraser doesn't identify with Charles. She's a little bit in love with him, that...
Crimson captain Mike Desaulniers, however, captured the "A" division laurels to cap off his brilliant career. Desaulniers compiled an undefeated record over his four years as Harvard's resident squash ace. His parting will breed sweet sorrow...
Martin Davies, as Edgar, often manages to escape Sellars' designs. His sweet British accent gives Shakespeare's poetry its proper melody. And his transformation from Eton dupe to London punk adds a clever twist to Sellars' dismal view of modern civilization...
...picture veers from the grotesque (eating binges whenever Dom DeLuise, as the title heavyweight, becomes anxious or unhappy) to the hysterical (members of his excitably loving Italian family yelling at him whenever he gorges himself). There is also a sentimental love story: the hero falls for a sweet, dumbish blond (Candice Azzara) who runs the gift shop around the corner from his card shop. As for the gags, they are mindlessly farcical: an examination at the diet doctor's features standard jokes about hospital gowns and a nicotine-addicted physician who coughs in the patient's face...