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Though part of the failure of Old Acquaintance lies with the trappings of a trite plot, the crux of the problem is simply poor acting. While some of the dialogue is admittedly maudlin bordering on corny, there is no excuse for butchering classic lines like. "Every man over 21 is another woman's cast off clothing." Moreover, if Weishan wanted to give the show the least bit of credibility, he might have atleast seen to it that teacups were filled with liquid and pipes with tobacco...
...mentioned as potential vice presidential candidates for 1984 [Oct. 17] were all qualified. However, you omitted the most appealing choice of all: Barbara Jordan, whose speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention was so impressive. No matter how long the presidential campaign drags on, it would never be trite with Jordan on the ticket...
Kunen dulls even one of the dullest stories ever committed to print. In an attempt presumably to add literary dimension to his work, Kunen adds trite and unimportant observations...
Unfortunately, La Cage is not always up to the level of its best performances or its best moments. Herman's music is better-than-average Broadway fare, hummable and with a simple, insistent beat. But his lyrics are often trite and vulgar. "Look under our glitz, muscles and tits," he writes in one song. Fierstein's book is sometimes forced; the campy scenes with the black maid/butler (William Thomas Jr.) quickly become tedious, for example Arthur Laurents' direction is occasionally jarringly awry, as when he has the mother of Jean-Michel's fiancee do a degrading...
...when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...