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...Carson discovered that set him apart from talk-show predecessors like Steve Allen (who created some of the bits that Carson later adapted) was that the very act of hosting a talk show could be the subject of comedy. Carson enlisted the audience as collaborators, with everything from the chorus of straight lines that arose from the studio audience whenever he complained about the weather ("How hot was it?") to his ubiquitous savers -- the ad libs meant to salvage jokes that have bombed. The subtext of Carson's comedy is always his own plight: How foolish, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And What a Reign It Was | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...movie that confounds expectations invites commentators to think Big Thoughts about its surprise appeal. In this case, one set of critics proclaims that the movie reveals the ambivalence that women especially feel about having to balance work and family. But another chorus of critics is offering its own interpretation, wrapped in a warning: that this movie is part of a decade-long attack against feminism intended to roll back the gains of the women's movement and convince women that their newfound liberation is the source of all their unhappiness. And therein lies the bigger story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Feminism | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...opening and closing images in Crazy for You, a "new" Gershwin brothers musical that opened on Broadway last week, depict chorus girls in giant headdresses out of some Busby Berkeley-style fantasy. These shimmering daydreams, afloat in dark space, pay homage to a bygone Broadway and to the movies of the pre-World War II era that have preserved its style for latter- day audiences. Between the wistful glints of remembered magic unfolds a plot aptly concerning two moribund musical theaters, one on the Great White Way, the other in dusty Deadrock, Nev. In both cases the solution is said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tap Dancing into Yesterday | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

This emerges in both the self-parodying chorus of "STFU" ("shut the fuck up"), and the intentionally comical use of the familiar rap exclamation "word!" in the consistently amusing "Sold Your Soul (for Rock and Roll...

Author: By Ron Weiner, | Title: Buy Me for My Cool Name | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...Chamber Chorus--perform Bach's Cantata 40, Ullyses Kay's Choral Tryptich, Jannequin's La Guerre, and works by Schutz and Lasso. Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

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