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David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.
!" Here, amid the seemingly aimless hubbub, the muddy narrative, the loose framing, and the faraway characters, a sense of place--Savannah--had begun to emerge, and also a free-floating anxiety: No one knows what's under the surface of these people; no one knows anything . The scary side of the city featured in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has never been captured with such brusque poetry, and Altman seems to pull the portrait out of his hat.
In this, he resembles no one so much as Margaret Thatcher, whose attitude toward the inessential was one of brusque, snarling contempt.
Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."
Rather, you'll hear the opening strains of the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, followed by Yardeni's somewhat brusque acknowledgment that things don't appear to have gone as badly as he'd planned.
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