Word: whiplash
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...regrettable in the case of Beckett's All That Fall. Since his Waiting for Godot, it is hard not to look at every succeeding lesser play as a lost opportunity for another masterpiece. Not that the new play is a total loss: many lines in it bear the authentic whiplash-imprint of Beckett's scathing wit or glow darkly with the grim beauty that only he commands...
Wakeman tried to wake the public with sweet reason, but he also used the whiplash, and the script still lays it on. "Ain't that beautiful?" sighs one of the airmen, with the blissful look of a man falling asleep after a hard day's work, as he listens to a radio commercial. "Everybody still selling things to everybody else." And when asked what he is fighting for, Grant blandly quotes the cornball who declared, "I'm fighting for my right to boo the Dodgers." But the moviemakers, well aware that the script is flogging a dead...
Sweet Smell of Success. The rat-rat-tattling of a megalomaniac Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...