Word: unevennesses
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Because of the uneven material, how one responds to The American Dreamer will be inspired by how one responds to Hopper. He bullshits continually about his mysticism and individuality and innate contrariness. But when dealing with other people, whether a terribly sympathetic press agent, a flushed would-be starlet. or a struggling-to-impress Playboy bunny, he can be unassumingly ingratiating-particularly when his irony is right, and subtly so. "I'm sorry, but I'm just in town for the day . . . since I'm an actress I thought I should meet you." says the starlet. "Well," replies Hopper. fanning...
This production of The Rake is uneven, the first act going far too slowly, the others much more well-paced. The staging is ornate, with nothing loft to the viewer's imagination, including even the sedan chair in which Baba is carried around by her coterie of overdressed servants, and the two-foot-long stuffed bird she carries in her hand. Perhaps the most annoying part of the production is its director, Michael Kaye, who spent the early part of Thursday's performance bustling about officiously, but relatively silently, and then ruined the last act by shouting directions...
...blooming qualities in Daniel. The only son of a South Carolina strip miner, Daniel grew up in Orange, Va. He slipped and slid through four years as a geography major at the University of Virginia. "My grades," he remarked, "were all over the place." His academic performance was so uneven that he was not accepted at the University of Virginia law school. The University of Richmond's law school took him, though, and Daniel buckled down. He became an associate editor of the law review and wound up in the top 10% of his class. After graduation, he went...
...German Gesammelte Worke of Brecht, and contains variant readings for all the plays, as well as the author's notes on the performance, conception, and meaning of each play. The plays have been translated by a number of people, and the quality of the translations is vastly uneven. William Smith and Ralph Manheim, who translated Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Life of Edward the Second of England, have not done justice to Brecht. Their translations, although technically accurate, are not performable. They have left the Baal's monologues in a kind of stilted, Germanic English which no actor...
...problems. The Soviet economy does not need minor rejiggering or slight changes in emphasis, but a complete overhaul. To be sure, Communism scored great accomplishments in turning backward Russia into a major industrial power in half a century, with a G.N.P. approaching $600 billion. But the development has been uneven. The Soviet command-style economy, with its rigid planning, central controls and bias against experimentation, simply no longer works effectively. Specialization demands decentralization. No single, central planning agency can fine-tune a diversified modern economy. The industrialized world has passed into a new and more mature technological stage in which...