Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hill can needle too, and he does it with an admirably straight face. Under his wry direction, John Neville and Donald Houston play Holmes and Watson with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily...
The Advocate's prose drought continues. Gerald Hillman sets up a psychotic counterpart between the colloquial jabberings of an Italian family and the stilted quarrel of a couple who live upstairs. All this either occurs in or comments on the passive consciousness of Willy, the title character, who has been...
Trouble in Paradise will surprise you. Ah yes, you say, another of those stilted early sound films where the stationary camera records the dramatic action of a sloppy sentimental romance. Valuable, you might suppose, for a film historian, but definitely not to be enjoyed.
In fact the entire company, with the exception of Joan Abrahams' very stilted Countess and John Callahan's painfully inept Damiens, seems quite competent. Mr. Mullin has let them down rather spectacularly, but that's not to say that the rest of Tuft's season won't be better.
Rusher is a nondescript sort of man, neither stilted nor folksy, laconic nor rambling, soft-spoken nor raucous. But perched on a table in a Union conference room or leaning over a coffee cup in the Yard of Ale, he makes a glib, effective speaker. Rusher has a quieter kind...