Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agee's life. From the age of 18 on, Bergreen assures us, Agee had fairly set work habits and style. He wrote late at night in tiny script with newly sharpened pencils, chain smoking, sipping gin, listening to jazz. Agee did not know the meaning of a throwaway line. Even when he wrote prose, he tended to operate by the laws of a romantic poet-packing in all the vivid details, then going for broke. He was a prodigious sufferer. He managed to embrace all the guilt there was to religion, all the shame there...
...this act, and the decision to go through with it, that provides Talmage with the framework for his play. Perhaps despairing of handling the glittering literary cast that thronged through his characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy pre-hippy...
Feldstein replied with a quip: "I suppose it was just a throwaway line." More seriously, he professed to find the Treasury Secretary's attack "quite amazing. I can't understand it." In fact, the two have long been at odds, though their differences have usually been expressed by a backstage elbow in the ribs rather than a public fist in the eye. Feldstein takes a far gloomier view of huge federal deficits than Regan does, and last week he annoyed the White House by saying as much in discussing forthcoming budget talks with Democrats. Said Feldstein, putting...
...direct contrast to the sanity of "Real World" is the psychotic "Diane," Beginning as a love song with the narrator picking up a young girl, the song brings in--almost like a throwaway or sick joke--the horribly nasty line, "But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead," and then proceeds into a strangely impassioned chorus. To pass off this unsettling song as a sick joke is too easy, and moreover, it would belie the fundamental message of the rest of the album. Rather, this song is both a frightening and frightened recognition of the violence...
SOME SCENES are too simplistic even for a Bond film. World diplomats react to Largo's threat of nuclear holocaust like actors in a fourth-grade play, stiffly delivering throwaway lines like "This is the ultimate nightmare" and "I hope the American government realizes its large, large responsibility." And the producers are just a bit too casual in casting Bernie Casey as Bond's CIA buddy. Since Never's production company is not the usual Albert Broccoli crew, having different actors play the same roles is to be expected--in fact, Broccoli wouldn't let this movie...