Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its flaws, Sweeney Todd will attract an audience. In this age where we crave "cheap" thrills people will mindlessly spend $25 a seat for a package expertly stuffed with surprises, shocks, and the star appeal of Ms. Lansbury. Using art's name, Messrs. Sondheim and Prince lamentably succumbed to this trend, producing an illconceived, ill-begotten extravaganza. Their estimable talents should not be wasted in this manner...
...joined his cousin Psychiatrist Marcus Barker at the Oklahoma City Psychiatric Clinic. Six months of on-the-job training enabled Barkouras, a compelling personality, to attract patients from a colleague, Richard Sternlof. Sternlof resigned and opened his own clinic, the Timberridge Institute...
...initiated the "hug," Will Doherty, a student at MIT, claimed that he only wanted to show the group's solidarity and hoped to attract attention from passing pedestrians...
...discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills. As in the Dalton case, computer passwords are often short and simple. Be sides, computer networks like Telenet or Datapac, frequently publicize their numbers to attract customers. Once into the computer system, there are other barriers to crash, and other techniques for purloining information...
...idol. With the help of Lucie Arnaz as Neil's girlfriend, and Laurence Olivier (who really must stop play ing Jews and Nazis) as his father, the movie plods along earnestly, endlessly - schmaltz in three-quarter time. Yet in its elephantine way, The Jazz Singer may attract much of the Rocky crowd, and for the same reasons. It recalls simpler days and sweeter movies; it does not condescend to its audience; it is neither angry nor esoteric. For many, this kind of movie has a certain restorative appeal. Others may find the experience like eating your mother...