Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself to be when her man goes randying after younger bodies and more pliant hearts. Andrews doesn't tear a passion to tatters; she uses...
...after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating his satire to the Age of AIDS. But no. The play has come to the screen inert and toxic, a poisonous time capsule...
...look back upon his achievements and assess what he has made of himself. Julius Caesar, it is said, was moved to tears when he contemplated a statue of a young Alexander and considered the accomplishments of his own first 20 years. My own first such moment came at age four, when the Kindergarten putsch I had engineered was suppressed by the gym teacher...
...those compulsives are neither long-haired hippies nor pencil-thin nerds, as stereotypes might have. Every evening at Tommy's upperclassmen in tuxes share the machines with construction workers and skateboard punks. "The people who play the games come from a really wide socio-economic and age background." says Nathaniel A. Wice '89. "But they're pretty much male...
...could stake his claim to make Americans from coast-to-coast smile "just like in the good old days" on even more substantial grounds. For Dukakis has presided over a golden age of comedy in his home state. Jay Leno got his start on the local comedy circuit during Dukakis' first term in office, and Steven Wright and D.J. Hazard hit it big during the governor's second sojourn in the state house. It's no coincidence that no one was funny during the King Administration...