Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parades a huge cast (playing eighty parts) across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...
...know from watching many an open Cadillac -or caisson-make the trip, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has both grandeur and grubbiness. As it stretches toward the Capitol, the stalwart neoclassical façades of federal buildings rise evenly on the right. But on the left side is an uneven collection of old hotels, decayed storefronts vacant above the first floor, and dreary parking lots...
...jobs now being created are for the skilled and the educated; of the 1,500,000 jobs gained in the past year, only about 400,000 went to blue-collar workers. The big gains came in the service fields, which in general require much higher education levels. This uneven situation has existed for a long time, but it has clearly become even more aggravated by prosperity. Just to hold at the present level of unemployment, the economy not only must generate at least 3,500,000 new jobs every year for the rest of the decade, but upgrade the skills...
...companion piece on the program, Gloria and Lily by Ida Picker, takes a slice of a very different kind of life--a miserable restaurant in New York. Miss Picker's knife has a ragged edge, and she has produced an uneven piece...
...unfunny point be made with considerable humor, and the humor does not come off. Furthermore, the flashbacks to the girls' life at St. Agatha's stand as the best parts of the book--not because the experiences seem more attractive but merely because the writing is better. Although the uneven quality of storytelling inadvertently reinforces the theme by making the present less interesting than the past, it seems hardly the best way to make a point...