Word: unconvincingness
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Once Stassen was the boy wonder-a county attorney at 23, Governor of Minnesota at 31, Republican Convention keynoter (in 1940) at 33, as well as floor manager for Wendell Willkie. His own cause peaked in 1948 when he scored impressive victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska presidential primaries, only...
Play does have a sound-dramatic structure, but it somehow fails to involve the audience in the problem it seeks to pose. Hart doesn't really speak his mind until past the half-way point. By then it's too late to build suspense, and the action gallops along at...
As usual, Williams polarizes his males -the sensitive soul and the brutal stud -and the division is as unconvincing as ever. He also preaches his favorite doctrine of physical redemption: "There's nothing in the world that can compare with what's able to happen between a man...
ELVIRA MADIGAN is not the most beautiful film ever made. It is not "perfect," or "absolutely gorgeous," or "exquisite," or any of the other things Bosley Crowther and his friends said about it. Director Bo Widerberg presents us with an unconvincing, confusing story fraught with technical flaws. In spots, he...
Which he has proceeded to do. His new House is made of plain rattan instead of exuberant Caribbean rococo, and it has only a couple of flowers instead of a whorish chorus line. But the story about Ottilie turning down rich Lord Jamison for poor Royal Bonaparte and the fluctuating...