Word: unevennesses
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Miranda's book may be uneven, but any novel with a silver-armed villain who suffers from an inferiority complex, an ecclesiastical hero driven by lust and armed with Gongora and a rapier tongue and set in a city where the whores exert the most influence--is irresistible...
...disturbing aspect of the uneven regulation and management of the industry is the rate at which private firms are taking over responsibilities once assigned to police forces -- ambulance services, parking regulations, neighborhood patrols, even background investigations for federal job applicants. In Kansas City the chief of police says he would like to contract with private firms to perform 22 tasks currently being done by the cops -- at an estimated 37% savings in cost. These tasks include transporting prisoners, assisting stranded motorists and guarding crime scenes. Similarly, to save money, armed Wackenhut guards have replaced sheriff's deputies on commuter trains...
...right? Sure, but we've always gotten more than enough Olympics coverage to last us four years, and we've always gotten it for free. Not even the grandparents of the competitors are going to shell out that kind of money to watch the maintenance crews set up the uneven bars...
Despite Jack O'Brien's adroit staging, the production at Boston's Huntington theater suffers from the uneven acting and imperfect casting that can give regional theater a bad name. But as always with Gurney, there is deep ambition beneath the whimsy and nostalgia. His real subject is middle-aged males' yearning for the lost premise that underlay social dancing: the assumption that the man would lead. The central character -- a drab real estate agent organizing the Snow Ball -- looks up at three memorable debutantes of his youth, again installed in the Snow Queen's sleigh. He labels them goddess...
From his German contemporary Sigmar Polke -- whose uneven but brilliant retrospective is now finishing its run at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and affords the utmost contrast to the work of his New York imitator -- Salle learned about hand painting his mass-media source images. And from the late paintings of Francis Picabia, he extracted (as Polke did, much more inventively) the banal mannerism of painting figures and things as though they were transparent, drawing them over the top of other things and figures...