Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine puts to good use selections from hundreds of hours of tape-recorded interviews, allowing John to "narrate" the movie himself from beyond the grave and avoiding the need for an intrusive third-person voice-over. John's honesty and wit are ever apparent...
...business of being funny. She resorts to time-worn Polish jokes--you know the type: "My husband's Polish. He gave me something long and hard when we got married...a last name." Understandably, these earn more catcalls than applause, and for advice she turns to Steven, whose wry wit sends the audience into convulsions...
...delete the previous character does not do so. And there is no on-line help explaining the keyboard (what do these extra keys DO!?). Also, HOLLIS does not take into account what is surely the most common task dial-in users will be performing with the system; to wit, dial-in users will be logging a transcript of their session to a file for later editing or printing. But HOLLIS, unfortunately, in its VT100 mode, moves the cursor for every display of cataloging information! (It could be scrolling the information instead.) What this means is that anyone seeking to print...
...drink many cups. Water could be replenished faster, although this is not a kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
...need for scenarios of lust and revenge? Those are just a few of the truth games played in this beguiling dark comedy by British Screenwriter Dennis Potter. As in his TV film The Singing Detective, Potter mixes memory and desire, threat and therapy, a misanthropic wit and the ache of nostalgia for old songs and sweeter dreams. Importing this brand of satire to rural America was a risk for Potter; some of his bleak irony must have been seized by Customs. But the ache of his characters is universal. And in Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Don't Look...