Word: dolle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While this production of Love's Labor's Lost clearly has Uphoff's vision stamped all over it, credit should be given to set designers David McMahon and Chuck Admanis in helping her to realize it. The set pieces cleverly combine function and style, as with the life-size doll house and white picket fence that mark "the palace" into which no woman must enter...
...Michael Jackson is still the world's most fragile child star. When he was 11, the Cupid and Kewpie doll of the Jackson 5, he had three No. 1 hits. He did O.K. on his own too: the two best-selling albums in history (Thriller and Bad) and a contract with Sony Entertainment valued at a billion dollars. For most of the '80s, long before anyone felt compelled to dub him the King of $ Pop, he was that and more...
Byron's lover Claire functions as little more a doll to be traded back and forth between the two men. Bennis gives this limited role an air of desperate gaiety, bringing a suggestion of self-awareness to Claire's naivete...
Dale laments that "you head out to the suburbs--Medford, Revere--and you're going to get the big hair, big bangs. The mall-doll look." Dale has seen these unhappy women. Eeek...
...bourgeois German household has been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...