Word: cutler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the first view of a rundown kitchen, complete with refrigerator and green plastic chairs, director R.J. Cutler and set designer Peter Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than...
THAT REACTION comes through loud and clear, helped by some strong actors and a director who sticks cautiously to a few basic note--squalor, loneliness, weired twistings of communication, and a creeping, gradually dominating mistrust. Cutler lets the cast carry Shepard's heavy messages, but he doesn't add much dramatic shape or thrust. Too ofen, the dialogue sags unbearably under the weight of its pregnant pauses; at other times, mostly in Act One, the actors lose track of their speeches meaning and say everything with the same flat air of significance...
...commission members, all old hands in the power game, could sense the resistance. The White House, they knew, would again irritate the men on the Hill by emphasizing the areas of difference, the doubts and anticipated inflexibilities of Reagan. Men like James Schlesinger, the former Defense Secretary; Lloyd Cutler, a former Carter aide; and Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, challenged the briefers from the National Security Council. Strengthen and clarify the language, the old pros said. Get rid of the accusatory slogan "It takes two" on almost every chart depicting Soviet-U.S. negotiating positions. Of course...
...haven't had as many great teams in one year before," says Eric Cutler '40, who has been associated with Harvard sports since his days in Cambridge as an All-American swimmer, the past 18 in the capacity of assistant athletic director...
Much as shibusa informs the eye of the cutler or potter or flower arranger, it must have informed the eyes of the designers of the Flamingo. This record player plays the disc as it stands upright, and thus becomes a source not only of sound but also of sculptural beauty...