Word: unevennesses
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...which had been idly perched on the turf. A ball boy came out, shrouded the corpse in a towel and tenderly removed it. For Winfield, who spent the rest of the game ducking balls and junk thrown by jeering fans, it marked the ignominious end to an evening of uneven achievements: one single, one double, one seagull...
Japan began to modernize its medicine along Western lines more than a century ago. Despite intensive efforts and some impressive successes, the nation remains underdeveloped by Western standards: its system is loosely regulated and the quality of its care is uneven...
While the show is generally well-done, the uneven acting prevents the play from being all it could. Brenneman convincingly handles the most difficult role of Vinnie, alternating between the emotionally childish "daddy's little girl" and the cunning, evil woman who twists people to murder or suicide. But her snarling performance leaves the audience unable to pity her character. This bleak production denies Vinnie the final redemption earned by a tragic heroine. The other demanding role, Orin, occasionally eludes Keshishian, as he has trouble at first keeping the war-weary boy diffident and still remaining in character. Happily...
...uneven cast, Marian Seldes is formidable as the bereft Queen Margaret. She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins. The rest of the production could use a splash...
...Paine (Harvey Keitel); a sumptious Comtesse Sophie de la Borde, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette (Hanna Schygulla); and various peripheral caricatures of the aristocracy. The wit, the life-blood of an era contained in one carriage, offer the potential for a rich entertainment, but the result is an uneven and tedious sequence of quarrels and flirtations, the names and costumes of history failing to conceal the mediocrity of this entertainment. As Casanova admits at one stage: "The old man didn't take your breath away, but his name, his reputation, his past," Restif's entertaining and informing role...