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...CLASSIC hero-villain conflict of the movie is, however, somewhat problematic. Morris Day and his sidekick--ex-roadie, ex-football-player Jerome Benton--are hilarious as a self-caricaturingly "sharp" twosome, complete with Abbott and Costello routines. They enjoy dressing up, abusing women--in one of the first scenes they dump a troublesome one into a trash can--and being generally vicious. The Kid spends his time dressing up (though in spike-heeled white boots rather than two-tone shoes), mistreating women, and being generally misunderstood and abusive. Quite a contrast...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Singing in the Rain | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

Among the thousands of nasty quips and barbed conceits that James Abbott McNeill Whistler sped at the world, the only one that everyone knows is perhaps apocryphal. Oscar Wilde, in admiration of some Whistlerian mot: "Jimmy, I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will." In all his long career Whistler produced only one painting that enjoyed the same permanent celebrity as this riposte, and it, of course, is Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1872, one of the half-dozen most famous pictures of the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pleasures of the Iron Butterfly | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...Letitia Abbott-Steele Shreveport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 11, 1984 | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...best game I have," says Carl Hutter, 7, an ace from Carson City, Nev., who once flew the simulator from New York to Los Angeles. "The hardest part is landing at Chicago at night." Abbott Paine, a pilot from Orange, Calif., praises the program's realism: "The view is terrific. When you turn, the landscape turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Flying the User-Friendly Skies | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...George Abbott was so affronted by his chicanery over royalties that he refused to speak to him for the rest of his life. E.E. Cummings acted out a pantomime at a party, in his presence, that compared him to a cockroach. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonder Boy | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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