Word: tad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street. No one has a VCR, drives a BMW or listens to CDs. In fact, the protagonist, who in the film has a name, Jamie Conway, works as a fact-checker at a magazine modeled on the stodgy old New Yorker. Even his best buddy, the flashy Tad Allagash (Kiefer Sutherland), is in advertising--not investment banking--although he certainly does come off as a New York nemesis, lost in the party world of models and money...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to toss lines off with Wildean abandon serves only to mar the gravity of his character...
...dimension could have profited from from a generous dose of hamming-up. Though Gilbert does not provide any really smashing leads in the script (he tends to be rather too egalitarian with character development in this one), more of the players should have cut loose and been perhaps a tad self-indulgent...
Macon's whites are a tad cynical about Gore. "I've heard some people wonder whether he's too wishy-washy," says Lawing, "trying to look more conservative in the South than he really is." Competition from foreign textiles and other imports worries people, and Gephardt's protectionist message might find a sympathetic audience. "If he's for limiting imports," says Prew Wilson, 54, who lost his job at a textile mill last Christmas, "you can bet I'll listen...
Pickup trucks would have to be designated the city's official vehicle, but the Mercedes dealer does just fine too. Though the oil business has been a tad slow lately, Edgar's Lone Star Mercedes-Benz is Canada's largest independent dealer, selling cars that range right up to $85,000. Contemplating his spanking new showroom with 8,000 sq. ft. of black marble, Mike Edgar is a cockeyed optimist about the future -- like most Calgarians. "We wouldn't have gone to this expense, bordering on decadence," he says, "if we thought the business was going to be dicey...