Word: unevenness
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...gentle dignity, a refined fragility that set her apart from the rather sordid affairs of her family. Laving floats in this play like a premonition of the woman Birdie will become--in The Little Foxes we see her twenty years later, trembling and broken after her uneven war of attrition with the Hubbard family, which she marries into--and both characters reflect aspects of Julia...
...this--which is most of the time--the humor tends to get lost in the melodrama. It isn't fair to blame the actors or the production entirely for what is, at least in Hellman's eyes, the failure of the play. The play is intended to be uneven, in the sense that it veers from comedy to tragedy, and it is often difficult for both the audience and the actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft switches from mocking subtlety to intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains...
Reflecting the conference's long debates, the document led off with a reference to Third World rather than Western issues. Noting that "as a result of the uneven development which prevails in international economic relations, three-quarters of humanity is faced with urgent and pressing social and economic problems," the plan called for a "new economic order." It did not, however, spell out how to achieve...
...economy, because its fortunes affect the sales of lumber, steel, furniture, appliances and many other products. For the past two years, it also has been just about the sickest of all American industries. Last week it finally began flashing signals of a recovery, albeit a modest, slow and uneven...
...rest of the cast is uneven. John Cazale does well as a funereally unctuous Goebbels, while Jaime Sanchez simply rants as Goring. The most dis concerting performance is that of Sully Boyar, who plays Hindenburg as a gemütlicher grandpapa with a Jewish inflection. The ultimate failure rests with Pacino, who leaves a final impression of Hitler as a poor immigrant boy who made it very very...