Word: actionless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this criminality, the story is claustrophobic and actionless, woefully deficient in gunfights and car chases. What the author proves here is that when reader and jury are sequestered for 400 pages, the likely result is mutiny...
...metaphors than to manifestos. At his lyrical best, which he certainly is in the remarkable play that reached Broadway last week after two years of regional development, Wilson can embed subtle and complex political commentary within the conversational riffs of fully realized characters. He can also end an almost actionless slice of life with an abrupt burst of violence, then instantly transmute that too into a redemptive act of -- well, pure poetry...