Word: bedlam
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...team scored. At one point Italy missed on a penalty kick. A silence which should have been incapable of thirty people in a room that size ensued for several minutes afterwards. Three goals for the Italians--the middle one by Rossi--in the second half converted the silence to bedlam. Final score: Italy 3, Germany...
...theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this sprawling Guignol fits with surprising snugness, and Angela Lansbury still schemes and postures through the role of Sweeney's accomplice like a deranged Raggedy Ann. As Sweeney, George Hearn gives a darkly...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the ring announcer bellowed a few minutes after the usual postfight bedlam commenced, "a word from the challenger." Cooney came to the center of the ring to get the microphone, and with his soft voice cracking, he told the 32,000 people exiting the parking-lot stadium at Caesars Palace, "I tried with all my heart. I love you. I'm sorry." Later he pledged to "go back to the gym and try harder," saying, "I have no excuse to make. I want you to know, I didn't fight the fight for the money...
...Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright red dress whose comings and goings are recorded for posterity-or at least the evening news-by the watchful...
...lines of dialogue interspersed with blocks of "technical" data--into a memorable whole. It would be a shame if Domini's work (the cover says he is finishing a novel) blundered into experimental affectation, when he could follow instead the promising signposts of whimsical intuition or philosophical fantasy that Bedlam suggests. If he takes the right path, he may not be teaching Expos forever...