Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, which includes nine maps that cover 45 sq. ft. It can take almost as long to play as it did to fight. The least warlike is After the Holocaust, designed around the premise that the U.S. has been sundered by an atomic war into four weak and competing regions. The regions are so impoverished that a war is unlikely to be profitable. The way to win is to cooperate, a concept that is unsettling to most game players...
...they played records and scrabble. Nevertheless, this marriage is disturbing, as are all of Varda's male-female relationships. There is no redifinition of a women's role in relation to a man here. If a man is dominant and aggressive the woman simply leaves him. If he is weak and easily patronized the women can stay. There are no struggles, no ugly scenes. Relationships either remain stagnant or are broken off. Commitments are never considered. They would only mess up Varda's tidy system...
...show. In Redmond's hands, Falstaff is an incorrigible bundle of contradictions. Lusting after the role of moralizer, he pulls his bulging body up underneath him, only to find that a stamping foot or a waving hand takes on a life of its own. Redmond shows Falstaff as a weak old man lying about brave exploits, a man who fools himself while fooling no one else. Yet Redmond's Falstaff can also execute a devastating denial of courtesy in a sarcastic bow or, blessing the servants with holy water poured from a bottle of sack, a mean mockery...
...only western nation that has taken no constructive steps to cut domestic oil consumption since the 1973 oil embargo can no longer afford to put off reform. While the energy proposal now emerging from Congress is weak in many ways, it is certainly better than nothing; the important thing now is not to let past losses stand in the way of working to see that the strongest possible energy bill is passed...
...voice and a smooth characterization of the nobleman, set adrift years before, who seeks his revenge through sorcery. Marc Baum sparkles as Caliban, the semi-human creature who tries to escape his enslavement to Prospero. Baum bellows and mugs marvelously as the half-sane, half-stupid creature, off-setting weak performances by all three Mirandas, all of whom seem drugged...