Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film sometimes wobbles in tone, and there is a certain strain involved in turning Donald and his criminal opponent into allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture...
...demonstrated in last summer's Gregory 's Girl, Bill Forsyth is a master of the throwaway turnabout. Here, with a tenser situation and a somewhat richer mix of characters, he makes about the kind of advance one would expect from him, modest and self-effacing. Maclntyre (Peter Riegert), the acquisitions man from Knox Oil and Gas, may think of himself as "a telex man," all hard figures and bottom lines, but once in the field he is entirely capable of going all soppy about a wounded rabbit. His boss, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster, expertly doing his clean...
...show Billy embarrassing photographs of Edythe and prevent their union. This "conflict" functions merely as a device to leave Billy and Edythe separated, but still in love, at the end of the first act. (Sometime during Act II, the Prince finally produces the photographs, which elicit only a throwaway line and an obvious joke from Billy.) Similarly, there exists little reason why, in the second act, Edythe flees to Morocco, taking the entire cast with her. Without an involving and sustained conflict, and with an equally unengaging resolution, the musical seems unanchored from the outset...
...injected a few droll jokes: an Iran Air airport bus disgorges three terrorists and some American hostages; a nurse takes her patient's temperature with a long oil dip stick. With its throwaway references to E.T., Ronald Reagan, TV anchormen and movies that have not even been released yet, Airplane II might deserve a place in a time capsule of pop culture circa 1982. Pia Zadora is already in there waiting...
...have an appointment with her.'" The fragment is a throwaway, a trite meeting of Woman with Death. And the poem is only a description of two lovers meeting in the forest--the only energy is the contrast between the two kinds of meetings implied. Axinn has written a poem by gluing two vignettes together--and it is a small monument to confusion and disunity...