Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embattled President, the cheering crowds were a tonic. "Reagan, Reagan, Reagan!" chanted a chorus of young people in Port Washington, Wis., as bright balloons lofted over the Lake Michigan shoreline and a band blared campaign-style tunes. In nearby West Bend (pop. 21,000), some 30,000 people turned out to welcome the presidential motorcade. Buoyed by the lively response, Ronald Reagan scoffed at critics who claim he has lost his political punch. Said he: "I reject a potted-plant presidency...
...them; it now closes with self- understanding and at least hints of reconciliation. What felt in 1971 like a put-down of old-fashioned musicals for their saccharine irrelevance has evolved into an unabashed celebration of revolving multicolored staircases, grandes dames in glittery dresses and kick-stepping lines of chorus boys in top hats. One of the new numbers, performed deadpan by Diana Rigg, is a striptease ending in a bubble bath. The original Follies might have inspired the wisecrack that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but in this version, it certainly...
...history but that no one seems willing or able to write anymore. The guts of the story, as in the first version, are plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What I Did for Love; Who's That Woman?, a realization by a brassy belter (Lynda Baron) of how age has crept up on her; Could I Leave You?, an outpouring of vitriol from a neglected wife (Rigg); Losing My Mind, the pathetic admissions of a suppliant lover (Julia...
Others manage to find strength and serenity in their affliction. Gerald lo Presti, a second tenor with the Gay Men's Chorus, was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1985. When crippling lesions spread to his vocal cords, Lo Presti had the lesions burned off and kept singing. When he could no longer sing the tenor range, he relearned all his parts in bass three weeks before the season began. Still later, he insisted on a blood transfusion that would allow him to tour with the chorus. "He practically had to be held up," recalls Perry George, a member...
...present, there is a chorus of healthy skepticism worth heeding. "The West is hornswoggling itself because of a passionate desire to believe the situation is radically altered," says Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World. "So far it's mostly been rhetoric," argues Vladimir Bukovsky, an exiled Russian dissident now living in Britain. "Soviet leaders have not changed their view of the world." Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a policymaker during the period of detente who is now at the Brookings Institution, says that Moscow's new thinking is merely "old- fashioned thinking with a jazzed up vocabulary...