Though the evening, woodenly directed by Susan H . Schulman, is replete with those choruses of harmonic " ooohs " that are meant to raise goose bumps, it never manages to summon any genuine sense of wonder.
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As a result, actors ( notably Matt Dillon as an FBI agent and Joan Chen as his Chinese lover ) move woodenly through not a quiet failure but " a big, bright and flamboyant one " ( Maslin ).
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Little attention is generally given to other performances, summarized by Variety in the phrase " cast, whether native English speakers or not, woodenly recite their lines . " according to Joe Neumaier of the " New York Daily News ".
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He stands woodenly, chopping awkwardly with one hand, and delivers a message that he insists is inspiring with monotonous flatness : " We-need-a-flat-tax-that-is-a-tax-cut ."
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"Wonderful World " by Richard Dresser, an allegedly acerbic satire of family and marriage that has been better and more economically served by " Saturday Night Live, " was so woodenly directed by Masterson that it yearned for a laugh track.
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Previously rehearsed with Rita in the apartment, where Rita feeds her lines woodenly, the scene is " dreck " and " hollow; every line unworthy of a genuine actress's commitment ", and Betty plays it in rehearsal as poorly as it is written.
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In one arrestingly staged number, the troupe woodenly acts out grisly Jacobean death scenes while Jack sings admonishingly to the audience about its taste for gore, " Watching you watch, you pray for more, since it's not you upon the floor ."
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I have piles of them _ pattern books for old-fashioned Norwegian ski sweaters or Mary Quant designs from the'60s, yellowing books with argyle or Fair Isle V-necks modeled by goofy-looking guys smoking pipes or posing woodenly with fishing rods or golf clubs.
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On first meeting, he comes across as stiffly formal and opaque, talking in clinical terms about having a " quantitative and qualitative commitment to theater " and insisting rather woodenly, " I love theater; I love my entertainment live and with content ."
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How strange that the movie lumbers along so woodenly before then, considering it's the latest big-screen entry from small-screen scribe and producer David E . Kelley, this year's double Emmy winner for " Ally McBeal " and " The Practice ."
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