Word: ater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barich embellishes the moment ("It was like somebody weeping in a darkened the ater long after the movie's ended"), and the effect is corny, but nice, like a good fishing trip. His race-track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize you've been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely...
...surprised itself in 1976 with the popularity of the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, and astonished itself a year ater with Roots. This Wednesday through Friday, the network tries to braid the formats and themes of those shows in a 19th century drama of Irish rebellion and emigration, The Manions of America. The Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those...
...sits in a chair on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower The ater, Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...Ater the tragic MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas last November, rescue workers were faced with a daunting task: how to keep track of the 4,500 guests and employees at the disaster scene. Nervous relatives and friends quickly overwhelmed the police department with calls seeking information about missing people. Executives of Commodore International Ltd., who were attending a convention in the city, moved seven of their small PET machines into disaster headquarters at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Commodore personnel programmed the computers to list names and rooms of the people staying at the hotel and drew...
From the world of dance came New York City Ballet's Peter Martins and Heather Watts and American Ballet The ater's Cynthia Gregory, who fluttered exquisitely through the Fledermaus solo. Placido Domingo exalted Granada. Sherrill Milnes, who spends much of his time playing villains, sang a poetic, almost prayerful Maria. Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many...