Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Moore is adept at slapstick humor, his longterm aspirations are in a more serious vein. In the future, Moore hopes to work for a theater that is both popular and able to convey a message. "I don't like meaningless Broadway entertainment, but I also don't like to go and set there and feel stupid, trying to figure out the director's meaning." Moore thinks that avant-garde theater is becoming too elitist and inaccessible, and terms it "pretentious...
...should they be. The nameless, stereotypical comedy props are Falstaffs for the Eighties, the stuff of a rich comedic vein that runs under and holds up the presumptive romance in this comedy romance Even against Cusack's domination of this running improv show, his co stars pull off a remarkable success time after time findfors in her few on-screen minutes, plays Professor Traub as more than just a wacky writing teacher: she is a kind of Paper chaselaw professor, seemingly about to utter. "Take this dime and call your mother Tell her you will never be a writer...
...between the two positions is not, as some on both sides of the debate would have us believe, one of morality (divestiture) versus pragmatism (conditional investment). The fact that we discuss our policy towards that country at all means that we are, to some extent, hit in the jugular vein by the plight of South African Blacks and coloreds. But our outrage at the immorality of apartheid does not cloud our conviction that divestiture is the best practical way Harvard can bring about substantive change in that society...
...moments dealing with the celebrity that follows from her heroism. But Director Herbert Ross stages farce awkwardly, and Buck Henry must have hated writing her closing speech, in which she soberly advises us to be well informed and vote conscientiously. Ms. Smith Goes to Washington is not his best vein. Or Hawn...
...follow fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...