Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chases spends most of the show eluding her, then shifts in a moment to loving her passionately. This transition -- which also commits him to a duel -- would be tough for anyone, and is utterly beyond the histrionic powers of Jere Shea, a handsome and harmonious hero but a wooden one. The message that love is unworthy unless it recklessly risks everything may fit the Anna Karenina-style sensibilities of 1863, when the show is set, but now it feels adolescent and irresponsible...
...here, in fields of dandelions next to wooden buildings with peeling paint, even the lawnmowers don't seem to make any noise. And the click of a camera shutter can attract attention...
Brendan Fraser is wooden as Monty, but Monty is a wooden character--so in a way, this seems appropriate. While Josh Hamilton goes a little overboard as the peevish pre-med, the actors who play the other roommates give strong supporting performances. Moira Kelly is a friendly, energetic Courtney, one of the boys...yet very much a woman. And Patrick Dempsey, as Everett the WHRB deejay, is joyously lusty. Dempsey has played a debauched Harvard man before--namely, Jack Kennedy in the "Reckless Youth" miniseries. This reviewer can only hope Dempsey will play a debauched Harvard man again...
White lilies perfumed the air outside the State Dining Room last Friday afternoon as Hillary Rodham Clinton walked in, sat down in a shiny wooden armchair under a portrait of a pensive Abraham Lincoln and asked, "Are we ready...
...affair that sometimes sounds -- on editorial pages -- equivalent to the abduction of Helen of Troy has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West and the proper functioning of U.S. law and order. The Trojan War this is not: the wooden horse is in America's citadel...