Word: clutters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director/Set designer Paul Warner '84, too, seems to want the audience to think. His set is more cerebral than realistic: In the wings, chairs float above the floor; on stage is a clutter of props and a telephone hanging down from the ceiling. By an occasional gesture within the play, Warner raises his own questions about the reality of theater: WOMAN pours MAN a drink of something from a while prop bottle and actually spills liquid onto his hand through his make-believe wine glass. Mostly, however, Warner plays it straight, competently choreographing MAN and WOMAN'S sexual tangle...
...FILM SUFFERS from extreme clutter. The writer, David Ward, crowds the picture with so many characters and incidents that all are slighted; not one has a chance to develop logically and completely. Gondorff and Hooker are supposed to be friends. Veronica and Hooker lovers, but since they're never allowed to spend any time together one really can't be sure. The film sacrifices the characters so completely to the caprices of the plot--substituting new intricacies of action for sustained dialogue--that no actor has a chance to rise above its general level...
Sitting casually amid a clutter of television cameras, microphones and cables during a morning press conference in the Quincy House Senior Common Room, Leonard jokingly described his private meeting with President Bok: "I requested from him a scholarship...
...another such scene, Masha (Cheryl Giannini) recites her lines blankly to the tuneless hum of a spinning top. A third vignette shows Natasha sitting among a clutter of her child's toys: Building blocks, a tiny chair, a wooden dog on a string are silhouetted brokenly against the floor...
...anyway? One can imagine some good apparatchik responding without irony to K&M's appalling View of the Kremlin in a Romantic Landscape, its gold onion domes and pink ramparts and red star floating on a sea like the isle of Cythera itself, framed by a "classical" Poussinesque clutter of arching trees, fallen columns and pediments and other bric-a-brac. It has the deeply sincere vulgarity of a holy card: an alliance between Alexander Gerasimov, Stalin's favorite artist, and Walt Disney...