Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Director Scott Weiner has developed successfully the psyches of his main characters. We get a sense that despite the tortuous screams and yells that pass between Mel and Edna, they truly love and respect each other. Weiner's effort comes, however, at the expense of the staging and the more technical matters of the play. He confines the actors to small areas of the stage. Simon claims there is no breathing space in the entire city; Weiner's direction drives the point home with claustrophobic regularity...
...delivered a full-throated locker-room harangue in early August that blistered paint and pride behind the locked clubhouse door. A number of Phillies muttered mutinously, but they won games in September for a change, finally clinching the division title with one game left in the season. After five tortuous playoff games, four of them extra-inning struggles of exquisite suspense, the Phillies extinguished the Houston Astros' hopes for their first National League pennant...
...twist after his affairs with Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and Manhattan. Three women sub for Keaton in Stardust Memories, and while each is superb, their roles are strangely limiting. Charlotte Rampling, a beautiful cross between Lauren Hutton and Lauren Bacall, plays Keaton opposite Allen's Allen. In one tortuous montage of second long takes, her teary face flashes over and over, unable to finish a sentence, to complete a thought, to cry. She is the troubled object of Allen's obsessions, and though we learn her past, and even her future, she remains enigmatic. Marie-Christine Barrault creates...
Part of the tortuous ritual known as freshman year at the United States Military Academy includes knowing the "days," the exact number of days until various important events, like the Army-Harvard and Army-Navy football games and Christmas. The last day before the event--no one seems to have any idea why--is always called a "butt...
WITH HIS BIOGRAPHY of the virtually unknown (to Americans at least) Liang Shu-ming, Associate History Professor Guy Alitto has completed the tortuous journey from dissertation to finished book. Alitto succeeds in retelling with new insight the story of intellectual crisis and quest in 20th-century China. Liang and his work in the service of the "Third Force" in China, between Nationalist and Communit, never occupied center stage. His failure and decline into historical obscurity capture much of the story of the early 20th century in China. Bust as Alitto has sought to tell that story from the novel perspective...