Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale humor. Judd Hirsch stars as a divorced schoolteacher gingerly exploring the single life. On his first visit to a singles group, he meets a sly assemblage of oddballs, including a group leader fixated on sex and a hilariously sleazy skirt chaser (Jere Burns doing Dan Aykroyd's E. Buzz Miller). Executive producer Ed. Weinberger (Mary Tyler Moore) and Director James Burrows (Taxi) are masters at milking a gag till it comes out grade A, and Hirsch's deadpan timing has never been more acute...
Last week a man claiming to be the Baron showed up on a late-night television talk show. Disguised by a mask, he admitted making three low- altitude flights above the city. Claiming that he is frustrated and bored by air-traffic regulations, the man pledged that he would buzz the city a final time in coming weeks. Within 24 hours, the daily Le Monde reported that police sources had identified a prime suspect: Albert Maltret, 52, who was arrested in 1986 for landing a single-engine plane on the Champs Elysees. "It's not me," Maltret told Le Monde...
...fast, ma'am. Bespangled, bejeweled Pamela Harriman approached one of the security metal detectors outside the Omni. She confidently strode through the narrow archway. Buzzzz. Off came the tasteful gold necklace. Try again. Buzzz. Off came the tasteful gold earrings. Try again. Buzz. Catcalls rose from the restless crowd of more than a hundred waiting to get in. Finally, she took off her tasteful gold belt and marched through, chin held high. The crowd cheered...
...season's main song-and-dance items, Ziegfeld and Winnie, are biographies with vapid books and recycled songs. The portrait of Showman Flo is slack and bland, the glimpse of Churchill in wartime likely to appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more...
...vast Palace of Congresses to debate their country's political future, and specifically the fate of Gorbachev's three-year-old program of perestroika (restructuring). A combination political convention, town meeting, classroom lecture and gripe session, the gathering turned into an astonishing exercise in Gorbachev's second-favorite buzz word, glasnost (openness). More than 70 delegates spoke their minds by week's end, and many others wanted to do so. But Gorbachev finally cut short discussion to hold a series of votes on political reforms. He got pretty much everything he asked for, including a new presidential system of government...