Word: ado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marion Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone), already better known to readers of the movie ads as Cobra. A man of few grunts (and no beeps at all), he is a member of the Los Angeles police departmentment "zombie squad," which means that his specialty is wasting homicidal psychopaths without much ado about Fifth Amendment rights. In the present instance they are coming at him in serried ranks, all members of what seems to be a satanic religious cult, whose chief form of worship is serial killing. Ultimately their evil energy is focused on a model, played by Brigitte Nielsen (Mrs. Stallone...
...approach. Three obscure vignettes written around the turn of the century by Italian Composer Giuseppe Martucci, chips off the old Puccinian block, got glowing, almost impressionistic ; readings. By contrast, Richard Wernick's new Violin Concerto had a hard, steely edge. Although the work proved to be much strenuous ado about nothing, it was energetically performed by the Philadelphians and Soloist Gregory Fulkerson. Finally, Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable for the breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz's sprawling...
...gift appeared on Diana's 24th birthday, a palace spokesman swiftly announced, "Given the fact that members of the royal family do not accept gifts of this nature, it has been agreed with the owner that it be auctioned for Birthright." Gerard insisted that the whole affair was much ado about almost nothing. Said he: "To us it is like giving a bouquet of flowers." To some of us, anyway...
...already over. Only two new musicals and four new plays--and no certifiable hits--have opened since Labor Day. For the moment, Broadway is dominated by the Brits and the blacks. The Royal Shakespeare Company has extended its repertory run of Cyrano de Bergerac and the enchanting Much Ado About Nothing. But the English are invaders. New native works measure the pulse of the American theater, and just now three new Broadway shows are the creations of blacks. Once again black performers are lighting up the Great White...
...geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery in Much Ado. But Cyrano is extraordinary, unique; his heart and his compulsive excellence set him apart from other mortals more than his prominent proboscis. Jacobi, for all his energetic resourcefulness, has neither the swagger nor the stature for the part. He commandeers the stage with his ambition to fill the role...