Word: tepidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wears an American flag tie clasp, is also staying at the Rufus Arms. He would be everyone's idea of a silent American, except that he spends his evenings at the hotel bar drinking heavily, flapping his right-wing opinions wildly and baiting Adams about his own tepid liberalism...
...Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...
...Independent's theater critic sidled up to me at lunch the other day and told me to say that Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a tepid comedy with a mediocre cast. It ran successfully in New York, of course, but then so did President Nixon. 7:30 at the Colonial Theater in Boston...
RICHARD II. This is not one of Shakespeare's master plays, and it has no titan of a hero at its epicenter. But it can be a wonderfully engrossing drama, and it does contain grand, stirring and passionate speeches. In this presentation the play is reduced to a tepid tempest in a cracked teacup...
...like Behind the Green Door, gained academic credentials this week. Manhattan's innovative New School for Social Research invited her to speak at the first session of its new course: "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." Some 550 students turned up to see Marilyn come clean. Instead they got a tepid interview session. (Q. "How do you do 30 or 40 takes of a scene in a skin flick?" A. "You don't.") Four officers from the morals squad were on hand, but off duty. "I was here to learn," said one studiously...