Word: timidating
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...lobby, beginners upstairs), and each professor played the dutiful homeroom teacher, making sure that everyone had a piece in the show. As might be expected, this approach almost always produced a rambling, diluted exhibition, in which even the most competent work couldn't overcome the welter of timid figure drawings and self-conscious photographs of somebody's brooding roommate. Having spent hours in the studios of my friend and classmates, I always found these shows most disappointing because I knew the department could put on a better public face. This year it finally...
...Unabomber walks to his seat. Even the prosecutors stop shuffling their papers to sneak a glance. But anyone expecting the self-confident strut of a killer who once branded his victims "dumb" and the FBI "a joke" will be disappointed. Ted Kaczynski's courtroom demeanor is almost timid. From the way he sits in his chair, hands folded, to the deferential behavior he shows his attorneys, he moves with the exaggerated politeness of a guest who doesn't quite know how to act in someone else's home...
...double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian brother; Mattias Frey '01 as the timid Major Major Matthew E. Johnson '99 as the boomin Col. Cathcart; Ollie M. Lewis '00 as the dying Clevinger; Andrew K. Mandel '00 as the expressive Chaplain; and Joe A Nuccio '00 as the mercurial Milo. Nearly all of the characters these seven actors play, however, are entertaining and endearing...
...Weiss are clearly interested in challenging notions of banality and social norms, they do so far less bombastically than their similarly engaged contemporaries, including Barbara Kruger, Jeff Koons and Jenny Holzer. Unlike these artists who often use monumental signage or sculpture to launch their critiques, Fischli and Weiss' more timid and ambiguous probing never risks assuming the inflexible stance of the institutions it questions. How, for example, could a photograph of precariously balanced household implements titled "Reagan's Model for Armed Space Travel" ever be accused of the ideological hegemony it coyly attacks...
Stone the filmmaker is always on a weird trip, is ever on the edge of wetness; that salutary quality endears him to souls more timid and judicious. It is as if we had chosen him as our Designated Liver, to be our recording angel and exemplary fool, to be the '60s adventurer, to go to Yale and war, do drugs, have sex with all classes and colors of women, to make scenes and movies, to be the gonads and guilty conscience of his generation. And if we hadn't drafted him? Then Stone, as he did for Vietnam infantry service...