Word: zestfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of Burton's films have been better than better. One wonders why this one is so dishwatery -- why it lacks the cartoon zest and outsider ache of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands or Batman Returns. Could it be he gave the material too much respect? The real Ed Wood would have known how to do it: with oddball twists and goofy stock footage, with no brains and a lot of heart. It would have been dreadful, and it would have been better -- more desperate, more daring. But this Ed Wood is dead wood...
...arts scene is characterized by an awareness of previous black traditions that the new artists self-consciously echo, imitate, parody and revise in acts of "riffing" or "signifying" or even "sampling." It's a movement that has come to define itself by its openness -- a cultural glasnost. Hence a zest for parodies and an impatience with sacred cows, as with George Wolfe's play The Colored Museum, or Rusty Cundieff's movie Fear of a Black Hat, a satire of hip-hop posturing...
...compare Bolton and the Nobel prizewinner may seem farfetched, but the woman behind Gal uses language with a Bellovian zest. She even has something of Bellow's broad moral overview. Gal is not about racism, feminism or victimization. The book enters the darkness of a "no-love family" without self-pity or bitterness and moves steadily toward the light. The sense of authentic experience eagerly seized is sharp on every page...
...really have to get going. " The virtues of this goodbye technique is that it makes the Pre-Greedicus sound really, really busy. And impressive too. For added zest, Pre-Greedici might tack on another sentence to share with you their important reason for having to run off so quickly...
Adam Feldman as the herald is much too loud and insistent at first, but calms down significantly after that and becomes the only island of sanity in this turbulent pool. With biting zest, he shows perhaps the only real awareness of his surroundings, and thus provides contrast to the rest of his cast--he sets them up expertly, so that their full abberation can be appreciated. David Levine as the Marquis de Sade speaks in such a laggardly, elephantine voice that some of his more intelligent soliloquies of de Sade's perversions sound unconvincing. He lacks the intensity...