Yet "The Road, " for all its vivid desolation, remains a curiously unmoving experience or maybe not so curious, given that nothing really happens in it.

CNN: Review: A journey down 'The Road'

You get the same headliners, nothing really happens.

BBC: Newsbeat - Music - Kasabian raring for Oasis tour

And when you put two followers together nothing really bad happens.

NPR: 'Guys Read:' Encouraging Boys to Love Books

We need to refocus our thinking and think, oh no, it's a hockey stick, it's a curve that really nothing much happens until we get to the very fringes and all of a sudden everything happens.

NPR: A Scientific Approach to Helping the Homeless

Maybe nothing ever happens really.

NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero

While nothing as bad as that happens in "Private Lives, " in part because Mr. Gross really doesn't look his age, it's still a mistake to cast Amanda as a cougar on the loose.

WSJ: Private Lives | When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar | Theater Review by Terry Teachout