Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tame and Tame Again...
Shakespeare, of course, never wrote about a new editor coming to grips with his paper, but Janeway's experience has become a study in the frustration of learning to run a big-city daily. He must tame a sometimes scrappy staff of 400 editors and reporters while trying to leave his imprint on the paper. At the same time, the Globe faces increased competition from the Boston Herald, a once-feeble tabloid that has come alive under Rupert Murdoch. No wonder that Janeway, a wry, reflective man not easily given to emotion, occasionally looks weary. "I feel like...
Unlike American attacks on the press, which tend to come from the right and assail reporters as too skeptical toward government, Pravda lambastes London's journalists from the left, as tame toadies of deceitful politicians. The handful of reporters in the play who show glimmers of decency are hounded out of the trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious...
Sellars is celebrated for controversial reworking of revered texts. But his new theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize the martial valor of the King's ablest rival, Hotspur; others exult in the merriment and dissipation of the Prince of Wales' favorite companion, Falstaff. The closest that Mayer comes to taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made...
...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...