Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before their source...
...Ruling Class. The cliche "brilliantly uneven" might have been coined for this film. Too long and, finally, stupid, but some of the scenes are superb-the Marxist butler (stolen by Tom Stoppard for Travesties) and a skeletal, cobweb-bedecked House of Lords singing a rousing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise." Peter O'Toole plays a balmy earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. The opening hanging scene and the parody of La Boheme are worth the price of admission...
...show is the result of three years' research by Art Historian Margit Rowell, whose catalogue-assisted with material from another student of Kupka's art, Meda Mladek-becomes the definitive work so far on this little-known, uneven but (at best) engrossing artist...
...this was there on her first solo album, Silk Purse, which included her single release, the extraordinarily sensitive and painful "Long, Long Time," which even now remains as good as anything she has done. But much of the album was barely mediocre, and succeeding efforts suffered from the same uneven quality. Ronstadt finally managed to realize the potential her admirers perceived in last spring's Heart Like a Wheel, a thoroughly professional performance--handled by her new producer, Peter Asher--that made her a major star in no time...
...world of knowledge and uncertainty. These books are published to explain, by parts, Harvard College--to cast light where otherwise there would be darkness. But, like the Old Testament, their light is fragmentary and uneven, ambiguous and problematic; and like all literature, they help create the shadowy world they describe...