Word: unevennesses
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...Harrison Baker, a newcomer from San Francisco who bills himself The Last of the Well Comedians (RCA Victor), is mildly notable because he is totally out of the new-comedian pattern, instead goes back a long way to imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans...
...ability did not make a fool of the orchestra, for Senturia kept the lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance or an uncomfortable "hole," or else a passage competently played would lack lift and fall short of expressiveness...
Gullette's performance was uneven, his best moments coming in the soliloquies, in which he contemplates each of his bloody acts. But it is not his isolated moments of passion that I want to praise; rather it is the intelligence with which his role is conceived. The tension of the production is created by Caligula's slowly developing insanity. This production convinces us that Caligula's decision to feign madness is rationally made, and that the insanity becomes real as he finds only a flimsy and cowardly opposition to his craving after power. Gullette's final frenzied soliloquy after strangling...
...humor is that it often bridges traditionally alien settings, brings the muddy-carpeted world of school lunches and commuter trains into incon gruous collision with the slick panoplies of Manhattan. It works in both direc tions. Writing about a third-grade play at a Larchmont school, she notes certain uneven spots that "could have been cleaned up if they had taken the show to New Rochelle for a couple of weeks." Conversely, one of the biggest laughs in Mary, Mary comes when the movie actor prepares to take the heroine out on the town, stifles her ex-husband's objections...
...Congressional authorization for the new agency to borrow from the Treasury up to $7.3 billion in loan funds over the next five years. This would enable it to make long-term aid commitments instead of coming to Congress each year to get programs approved. "Uneven and undependable short-term financing has weakened the incentive for the long-term planning and self-help by the recipient nations that are essential to serious economic development...