Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this movie refuses to impose a thrusting dramatic structure on a story that is all incident, it also refuses to adopt anachronistic sociological attitudes toward its people. It retains novelist Connell's tone -- one of ironic compassion -- and sustains as well the perfect pitch of his voice, never going flat or sharp. That is to say it neither falls into easy sentiment nor strains for cheap satire. Instead it grants the Bridges the dignity that they -- and most people of their time, place and (upper middle) class -- worked so hard to achieve and that is usually denied them in serious...
...Tonight was our worst effort," Harvard wing Peter Ciavaglia said. "It gives us a lesson. You can't come out flat and beat the good teams. They didn't let us get out of our zone. We couldn't start our rushes with a good break-out play. Their defenders stepped up and stymied us. I don't remember many three...
...think they look really good on some people and really horrible on some others," Holdt says. "I knew someone in high school who pierced his nipple. I'm not quite that crazy. I had a diamond nosering and I really liked it but I lost it. I like small flat ones. I wear one all the time...
Billowing plumes of dust high into the air, a column of heavy tanks rumbles across the flat Arabian desert just south of the Kuwaiti frontier. The M-60s are American-made, but their crews are Egyptian. Five miles away, a cluster of British-built Chieftain tanks are poised with their guns pointed toward the border. This detachment is part of a Kuwaiti army brigade that managed to escape the Iraqi invaders. "Our mission," says Colonel Ibrahim Al-Wasmi, the unit's deputy commander, "is to return to Kuwait...
...plot. But this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...