Word: unevennesses
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...faults shared by books based on a series of magazine articles, it occasionally raises a telling point. Boroff is most effective when he writes of the lack of life and enthusiasm in college teaching. His attacks on scholarly journals and the pressure to publish are bright spots in an uneven but occasionally useful book...
David Landon's work is uneven, but promising. Debutante, the most successful of his four poems, contains fresh imagery, such as: "a snicker of knives, like ripped silk," and avoids mistakes like: "the golden barbers of his soul." The latter comes from a piece of Landon's entitled Letter He Would Send To His Sweetie If He Were Chinese...
...Like It is really a flawed and uneven exercise for Twelfth Night, it still has its own individual merits. Clearly, Shakespeare was little interested in the early court scenes; and just as clearly, the sudden and unmotivated ending, with its quadruple marriage and reported reform of the villain, comes simply because it's time for the audience to go home...
...China. The Soviet answer to that problem was a proposal that the U.S. and Russia form a military alliance and turn those 750 million "oversexed yellow rabbits" into so much jaundiced fallout. Written by Novice Playwright Eric Rudd and built around a 1970 summit conference, The Interpreter was as uneven as the Manhattan skyline. But its central, climactic scenes, played by a cast that includes Richard (Advise and Consent) Kiley, were alive with theatrical tension, swaying giddily on the brink of thermonuclear...
...recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks the porter to put him to bed. The porter chides him: "A smaht boy lahk you not knowing the capital of Alabama." The boy scowls, trying not to cry. Then: " 'Sure I know,' he said in a listless, uneven voice that was almost a whisper. 'It's Montgomery...