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While Ardant manages to be as engaging as her role allows, Trintignant is bland even beyond the dictates of his character. As Vercel, he comes across as unequivocally wimpy rather than charmingly understated, leaving the romantic subplot quite unconvincing--mildly grotesque, in fact, as the love scenes inevitably resemble unmotivated...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

BAYEDOES A SUPERB JOE as the victim coming across as infinitely fragile rather than unrelentingly wimpy--it is a time enough line. Emphasizing Helene's shame and reluctance at the situation, Baye makes her character seem almost innocent despite the deception she perpetrates. Every time she is forced to tell...

Author: By Hanne-marie Majala, | Title: Harlequin Romance | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

"It's the fashion, like jeans," says Juan Carlos, a young Bogotá professional. "At our parties now, everyone just sucks smoke and gets selfabsorbed. The parties are spooky: no laughing, just puffing." Alberto Laverde, 27, is a smooth, smiling Bogotá hustler who dispenses cocaine at the local Wimpy hamburger bar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

The plotline, though as irrelevant as usual t the rest of the proceedings, goes basically as follows. Heroine Angela Mercy's adlun Issacs) arrives in Collier Bluff to claim the untapped mind. The Patco Strike"--that belonged to her late her late father, Evan But Yuvantsum (Michael Rapposelli)--who incidentally...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

TO HIGGIN'S CREDIT, however, he results some of the tough-guy cliches he spouts forth in his pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tough Guys | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

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