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As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.
5), Lisa-Marie Presley is "desperately pleading" with ex-husband Michael Jackson to get back together, says the Enquirer . "I'll treat his two adorable kids as my own," Lisa-Marie is quoted as saying, in the unmistakably stilted syntax of tabloidese.
All three of his arrest-story "sources" speak in a stilted, too-perfectly-advancing-the-story-line way, telling the author more or less the same thing, and congratulating him on his genius in ferreting out this facts.
The pair of models who try to pick up Dr. Harford have dialogue so stilted that it could have been written by David Mamet.
She will soon be smarter than her mom and dad but is having trouble in school--no one can help with homework, and she's picked up the slurring, stilted speech patterns of her parents.