Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless, and the script neglects to develop the kind of human relationships any movie needs to draw us into its web. A lot of good, serious work went into this film, but it lacks the conjurer's touch...
Your unlucky reviewer, Ms. Ashwini Sukthankar, could have done herself a service by reading a dictionary definition of surrealism before writing her review of Jet of Blood, as most of her witless and floundering criticism of both Artaud and Gammons is in fact an uneducated denunciation of the surrealist movement...
...text. In blunt fashion, Comfort describes the ways in which people can become infected with AIDS and discusses methods of avoidance (none of which are without their dangers). Comfort's keynote: / "If your newly found love won't use a condom, you are in bed with a witless, irresponsible and uncaring person...
...WHITE ROSE. Hitler and the Nazi era continue to fascinate playwrights as a metaphor for evil, both in witless flops like off-Broadway's A Bright Room Called Day and in poignant efforts like this world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe...
This neurotic energy undermines the various dramatic moments of the play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential...