Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's Alliance member Vicki Bernstein said she is dismayed by the council's decision...
...Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than to sell the house, gyp the spouse, and move out with the kids. The scene's immediacy--with the smell of frying...
...best, enabling the consistently wacky pre-teen Emma to relate her personality so other characters--parents, for instance, Gutwillig as Wesley has a harder time. Less defined to start with, his character progresses a lot further through the plot's various unbelievabilities than his sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...
...increasingly sparse, and at least 2,000 of the parlors have closed down this year. In Los Angeles, where the competition is particularly fierce, some arcades are selling eight game-playing tokens for $1 instead of the usual four. Christopher Kirby, a consumer-electronics analyst for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm in New York City predicts that one-fourth of the arcades still open in the U.S. will be forced out of business within a few years. Sales of new machines to the parlors have stalled. Ira Bettelman, vice president of a major arcade-game distributor in Los Angeles...
...songs, says: "They are colleagues of mine, speaking the same language with different accents." In fact, he adds, the Beatles' haunting composition, She's Leaving Home-one of twelve songs in the Sgt. Pepper album-"is equal to any song that Schubert ever wrote." Conductor Leonard Bernstein's appreciation is just as high; he cites Schumann. As Musicologist Henry Pleasants says: "The Beatles are where music is right...