Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might expect the same fate to befall Smile, adapted from a 1975 Michael Ritchie film that satirized beauty pageants. The narrative, centering on girls who are strangers, inevitably lacks complex relationships and love interest. Moreover, it is difficult to write a parody much funnier than the real Miss America proceedings. And it is hard to keep audiences interested in the climax -- which entrant will win -- after repeatedly telling them it shouldn't matter. Curiously, Smile works. It is a swift-paced, skillfully performed and thoroughly professional entertainment that balances amusement at the shallow ambitions of the characters with respect...
Since its grand opening 20 months ago, the Charles Square shopping complex has stumbled over some rough obstacles, some of which are still being smoothed out: four shops have moved out; the mall is situated out of the Harvard Square traffic flow, and some perceive it as overpriced for the college market...
...performance is captured and preserved on film, while the potential for sheer spectacle is unsurpassed. There are no bad seats, and no off-nights. And those who saw the Miklos Jansco films recently shown at the Carpenter Center realize that the camera can create images far more powerful and complex than even Robert Wilson is capable of on the stage...
...grand jury charged that since 1978, Escobar and his confederates have smuggled into the U.S. at least 58 tons of cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted for plotting the murder of Adler ("Barry") Seal, a drug ( smuggler turned informant who was gunned down last February in Baton Rouge, La. Seal was to have been the Government's star witness in the trial of the cocaine kingpins...
...generation, the shadow that America crosses the street to avoid and finds uncomfortable to discuss. It evokes a sense of fear laced with guilt, anger tinged with racism. For many of these youths, fathering children out of wedlock and committing crimes are rites of passage. Richard Wright drew a complex portrait of such disaffected young black men in the character of Bigger Thomas, the antihero of his controversial 1940 protest novel Native Son. Today there is a new generation of Bigger Thomases in the U.S., thousands of Native Sons who can be seen hanging out on street corners, talking tough...