Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director, Davenport seems to have allowed her actors free rein to interpret their character as they choose and only the aforementioned actors and Mark Levine as another friend have the discipline to keep Davenport's flat characters from fading into the background. Like Davenport's direction, Jennifer Bucksbaum's pepless choreography might as well not be there at all. The occasionally good acting and sometimes clever songs cannot fill all the voids the make It's Really Me really unsatisfying...
...their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile from the harbor when something went very wrong. "All of a sudden there was the shock of the boat shaking and listing," recalled Passenger Rosina Summerfield. "It continued to fall over until it was completely flat on its side. The people were screaming...
...were produced. By 1992 the output is expected to drop below 1.7 million bbl. a day, making Britain a net importer of oil for the first time since 1980. While Mexico's reserves should last well into the 21st century, its production is expected to stay flat for the next few years. Because of the shaky state of the Mexican economy, Pemex, the state-owned oil company, will probably be unable to make the investments needed to bolster oil production...
...emigre actress renowned in Warsaw for roles in the classics. In New York City she shuffles around a decaying and almost bare tenement flat, hanging up tea bags to dry for reuse while intoning Lady Macbeth's hand- washing scene in an odd singsong with a thick Polish accent. No one will hire her, and even she can hear herself and understand...
...another to bump the ball in the fairways or nonchalant it on the greens. The game most of them play combines croquet with tiddledywinks. But they know the rules. Alerted by the whistle blowers, P.G.A. tour officials penalized Stadler two strokes for innocently "building a stance" with his flat towel and then disqualified him entirely because the scorecard he had signed the day before was now incorrect. Some might say the punishment fit the crime no better than the pants fit the criminal, but when did the rub of the green ever have anything to do with grass stains...