Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times Wingrove does allow things to get stuffy in an unfunny way. The rahther heavy English accents and the constant over-acting are initially acceptable, but as the play wears on the over-acting wears thin and the over-Oxbridge intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...
...more than 1.25 million florins on drawings and prints, ten times the outlay on art of the Austrian imperial court itself. During an era when "art investment" was unheard of, this obsessed duke put a quarter of his fortune into collecting. He died at the age of 84--"a thin old man," according to an account cited by Albertina Director Walter Koschatzky, "with tired, sad eyes, who walked through the rooms alone, followed by a little white dog"--with more than 13,000 meticulously chosen and indexed items in his portfolios...
...have always preferred Coca-Cola to Pepsi, finding the latter much too sweet and thin. Most of all, I dislike the citrus-oil flavor I seem to detect in Pepsi. And though the new Coke approaches the sweetness and thinness of Pepsi, it does not have the lemony aftertaste. Therefore, I still prefer Coke. I suspect that those who have preferred Pepsi will continue...
...President, in his budget speech, showed some signs of greater realism. While remaining feisty, he for once made no reference to his re-election, apparently realizing that the mandate argument had worn thin. It has, and so has the first-term description of Reagan as the Teflon President, the man to whom no blunder would stick. Over time even Teflon can be scratched...
Sexual politics belong more to Blue and Eli than director Roth. To be fair, women aren't the only characters in Heartbrakers that get superficial treatment: everyone does, because the script is thin and the dialogue occasionally strained. But Roth is a very talented visual director, and once the characters have been introduced in the crupric first half hour, the atmosphere and psychological action are compelling...