Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show-biz royalty was saluting show-biz royalty on opening night as a cavalcade of limos rolled up to the marquee of the Winter Garden, disgorging the likes of Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that...
Brustein believes applause affects a professor's delivery in other ways as well. "Good actors try to create a circumstance that looks like they're remaking it up as they go along," he says. "You satisfy yourself as a lecturer most spontaneous." Applause, he concludes," encourages a certain show biz attitude...
...Williams, 50, who composed the score for E. T. as well as for Star Wars, graciously shook hands with the world's most familiar otherworldly character (animated on this occasion by a midget within). The audience went wild. Who knows, E.T. may now develop an itch for show biz. Cut to the munchkin megastar, reclining by the pool, sporting dark shades, puffing a cigar. A voice over the loudspeaker says, "E.T, phone office...
...Dying is easy, comedy is hard," Swann intones at one point, claiming this switch on an ancient show-biz truism is an expiring actor's last words, but My Favorite Year's writers and director are sometimes too determined to make it seem as comfortable as possible. The script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist...
...attack the arguments Stanley provides for you. You root out faulty linkage between evidence and conclusion. Indeed, which information if true will most weaken the author's discussion? What is the, most appropriate title for this passage--"Ground Glass: Roughage for the Eighties" or "Startling New Discovery Turns Roughage Biz...