Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real treat to which. We never know what she's going to do next-but we do know will have to do with the pursuit of Her Intended. As her victim, the selects a stereotype of bachelorhood--a rich, handsome. Parisian lawyer named Edmond (Andre Dussolier). Her game of cat and mouse monopolizes the rest of the film and her actions reveal her desperation in finding a true place for herself in society. Of course, various plans to entrap the unsuspecting Edmond are amusing in their simple . But in the end, the indefatiguable pursuit of the values embedded in modern...
...contains far more than discarded tires, battered wheels and disemboweled body parts. He has constructed a collage of the detritus of contemporary civilization: smeared paper plates, unstrung tennis racquets, old Red Seal Victor records, Drambuie bottles and boxes of Tender Vittles. Every object is outsize, as a cat might...
Here the Jellicle cats, a flighty, exuberant lot full of larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
...even more endearing character is Gus, the Theater Cat. Stephen Hanan makes him a dipsy old charmer who deplores the lack of discipline in modern actors...
Outside the Kensington house is a Britain in social twilight. The sun is setting on this pinchpenny welfare state; what follows is a long night of petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration...