Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilsonesque The Juniper Tree with its giant, inexplicable rhinocerous, has been original and rewarding. He has no distinctive stylistic trademark other than a fertile imagination and a refreshingly practical understanding of the stage and stage practice. His one consistent method, common with auteur directors, has been to rely on classic texts. A playwright can't argue with a ground-breaking interpretation of his text when he's been dead for a century...
...great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a beautiful missionary, played by Katherine Hepburn. Shot mostly on location in the Dark Continent, The African Queen proves that, in the hands of a superb director, the simplest plots can become high entertainment...
...Classic Hitchcock in skeletal form: the setting of Rear Window; the mama's-boy murderer from Strangers on a Train; and even a fashionable switch of identities from Vertigo and Marnie. There are other rewards in this low- rent thriller. Guttenberg is no one's nominee for an '80s Cary Grant, but his frat-boy smile freezes nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot...
...securities analyst named Nick Halloway, becomes the ultimate inside trader when a botched demonstration of an exotic new technology makes him transparent. He slips into the offices of corporate raiders, overhears their takeover plans and makes a fortune by telephoning orders to his broker. Guiltily, Halloway offers a classic economist's rationale: "The invisible hand taking its own small...
...Lacroix is the new superstar of fashion, the darling of last week's Paris couture shows, extolled by the press and praised by competitors. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel calls him a "breath of fresh air." Giorgio Armani, whose severe, classic designs are the antithesis of Lacroix's, wishes him luck. "Welcome," he enthuses, "to Lacroix with his fresh follies...