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What's this? A Broadway musical that comes out foursquare for motherhood? And, for that matter, fatherhood? Shades of George M. Cohan! Nor is that by any means the end of the sins against chic committed by Baby. It is set in a leafy college town, about as far as you can get from show business, which seems to provide the themes and setting for most of Broadway's current musicals. And in a theatrical atmosphere where producers will spend millions on state-of-the-glitz stagecraft but not a penny for tribute to the ordinary issues that...
...other hand, the passage of time has not yet burnished away the ambiguities surrounding this affair, which might have permitted a purely mythic, Gandhi-like approach. In short, the moviemakers are backed into a corner from which neither show-biz sophistry nor a resort to the kind of radical-chic attitudes Nichols has always favored, nor yet a hundred hymns, can lift them. The final unspoken implication of this film is that Karen Silkwood's tragedy lay in the fact that she was cut down just short of the point at which she would have attained that truly amazing...
...seldom breathe unscented air, but they risk their names and their companies in the cold atmosphere of commerce with each new collection. There are not many truly wealthy private clients left, and they instinctively flock to whatever guru has had his inspiration certified by the press and by a chic popular line. (Princess Caroline of Monaco may be the only young woman left who patronizes a couturier, Marc Bohan of Dior, the way her mother did.) Walking through this exhibition, one is struck by Saint Laurent's fecundity, his ability to harness everything-nostalgia, whimsy, exotic venues, painting, novels...
...Esquire reader, according to an independent survey, is a male college graduate between 25 and 34 who earns $33,000 in a managerial or professional job. In addition to fiction and some semiserious journalism, the magazine provides advice on trendy places to live (Santa Fe, for women and scenery), chic collectibles (signed handcrafted furniture), modish cookery and backpacking...
...King, who naturally appeals to the city's more intellectual and chic liberal residents, has been largely unable to communicate exactly what makes him different from Flynn. And, probably out of fear of alienating the much-needed white vote, he has not effectively criticized Flynn's opposition to the institution of court-ordered busing...