Word: worded
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Celebrity is different from Allen's previous works in other ways, too. Celebrity is certainly his most gentile film to date. The word "bagel" is uttered only once. The only scene with rabbis in it features the yarmukled men trapped in a room with a group of teenage skin-heads. Most of the film is shot in locations besides those that are usually featured in Allen's stories; now characters are uprooted, on the streets, at parties, in movies, and so forth...
...just about any sentence from the book, chosen at random, one finds use of an unusual but exactly fitting word. Gabler possesses an unusually large vocabulary. His word choice is always precise and ingenious and leaves the reader wondering why most of these extraordinary words are not more common in writing and speech...
...translation of the script is one of the greatest feats of this Americanized performance. Paul Schmidt converted Racine's French Alexandrine couplets into the American vernacular, avoiding awkward idioms and unnatural word sequences so that the targeted audience is virtually unaware of the play's original language. Although not as eloquent and lyrical as typical 17th century verse, the clear and unbroken dialogue provides for effortless comprehension on the part of an American audience. As for individual performances, each cast member skillfully plays out his or her part in Phaedra's psychological battlefield: Randy Danson, in the title role, effectively...
...really only knew Suzanne through class but nevertheless she had one of those radiant personalities, a class of her own," he said. "She was in a lot of ways an oxymoron in the best sense of the word: warmth, but cool, brilliant and outstanding, critical in a friendly way. She always had a straight up answer...
...CCSR is very literal about every single word in the proxy," she added...