Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Look off Your Face, to a delicate ballad, Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes. D'Amboise is limited to three facial expressions: wide-eyed wonder, hangdog hurt and a nod of sudden understanding. But he bounces through the ballet routines with every bit of the puppyish appeal that Peters has already attributed to him in her songs, and has a charming exchange with a chance acquaintance (Gregg Burge) who dazzlingly teaches him to tap. Together the enamored pair brings off the quirkiest of love stories: in the latest and not the least of Lloyd Webber's tricks...
President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly this week. If he is able to keep the appointment, he will probably renew an appeal he made three weeks ago during his annual state-of- thenation speech, when he asked for a new round of negotiations to ease repayment conditions. He can only hope that lenders will listen--and respond favorably...
This dramatic split between poetry and social causes was reinforced by the readers' selections of poems. One would have hoped that the "Big Chill" generation's perspective on poetry might have produced meatier selections than the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." But, designed to appeal to an audience new to poetry readings, the selections often instead resembled what WBCN's Charles Laquidara called "that stuff I hated in high school...
McDavitt said the probabtion of Man Ray and Latin-O's would make it easier for the commission to deal with the bars if problems persisted. The bars would also have to agree not to appeal the decision...
Unfortunately, Roeg's mythologizing of the four characters succeeds only with Marilyn. Perhaps he has been reading Norman Mailer, for he, too, sees her as more than the apotheosis of sex appeal. The woman who once sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" and died of a mysterious overdose comes to embody maligned femininity everywhere. Treated as a sex object she resigns herself to scoring all her points by means of sex. She is forced into a role that suffocates and ultimately kills...