Word: 80s
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...with David Letterman. No, of course not. Except that, for the last 16 years, the queen of daytime talk had refused to be a guest of the once-hippest guy on late-night talk because he had made her feel demeaned when she did appear back in the 80s, then took her name in vain, oh, about a thousand times in subsequent shows. Not to mention, though of course they both did last night, the "Oprah... Uma..." fiasco the year Letterman hosted the Academy Awards...
...speaking for the world, I mostly did love it. The Color Purple takes the seriousness of purpose that marked the signature musicals of the 70s, 80s and 90s (your Evita, your Les Miz, your Passion) and hitches it to the propulsive narrative zip of this decade's signature musical comedies (The Producers and its zany progeny). It's an epic, largely tragic tale that rarely dawdles or meanders. Terrible things happen: incest, abduction, the dankest, most intimate forms of betrayal. Yet they are presented with so much energy, in the narrative and the performances, that the effect can be exhilarating...
...gets reflected in the book's botanical design. (The book arrived at my office wrapped in a bow and a hand-designed packet of seed from the author's garden attached, though I am sure it does not ship to bookstores this way.) The earliest material, from the mid-'80s, shows Tyler already interested in the dramas of the household. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," provides a snapshot of a neighborly Midwest Saturday night gathering during the mid-'60s. The men, all in one room, swap curse-filled insults and pornographic playing cards, while the women trade techniques for keeping...
Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner) 4 1/2 stars Ever since the mid-’80s, the mother of reinvention has been on a quest for enlightenment. On records such as “Like A Virgin” and “Like A Prayer,” Madonna got “Into The Groove” with (unauthorized) inspiration from Catholicism, complete with rosary and a communion-ready white dress. A decade later, on the critically-acclaimed “Ray of Light,” she boogied to Buddhism. In 2003, she changed her musical...
...interest. “Joggling will always appeal just to a fringe group,” said William R. Giduz, joggling director for the International Jugglers’ Association, an group founded in 1947. “It’s been around since the ’80s and has never taken off to hit the big time.” Warren advised would-be jogglers to join the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club. “There are lots of cute juggling nerds awaiting new people,” he said...