Word: artlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret of the program's runaway success is Williams. He is not only an inspired clown but also a perfect entertainer for TV's mass audience. Mork has the innocence and enthusiasm of a toddler discovering the world. But he is one toddler who can talk. Artless, gullible, endearing, he lets the audience in on every transparent thought that whirls through his head. His rambling is wildly unpredictable, in part because Mork talks not only to himself but to three or four parts of himself-and they talk back...
...very artless artist can sometimes achieve freshness simply by not realizing that his material is stale. A very strong-minded one can, on a good day, banish cliches from an overused subject by sheer force of will. Ridley Scott, an English television director who had not done a full-length movie before The Duellists, clearly is strong-minded, and his film does not contain a stale moment...
...film tells the story of a year in the lives of three Vaganova students-an 11-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a young woman about to graduate. This is done in a straightforward, quite artless manner. There is a little spurious drama about the graduate's nervousness over her final recital, but the audience learns quickly that she really had nothing to worry about, as the Kirov had decided to accept her some time before. The picture is at its best when it shows youngsters trying out for admission to the school and when...
...that cops are human too - vulgar, shady, resentful of authority, un feeling at precisely those moments when they need to show some sensitivity. But, of course, there is more to being human than that, and the interrelated short sto ries of the book had about them the air of artless anecdote. They were tales that might have been funny if you'd been there, but that turned flat and ugly in the retelling...
...example, and hi Barbara Garson's play MacBird! Political figures, so the paranoia goes, are fair game. It is assumed in this genre that the most scabrous inventions can be brandished publicly and still fall short of the awful truth. Coover handles the rather limited demands of this artless form with ease. Those who are amused by gross fantasy will find much to admire in The Public Burning: Supreme Court Justices slipping and sliding in a pile of elephant dung; an aspirant to the presidency being sodomized by Uncle...