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...1967’s open letter tongue-bathes our president as having “brought a breath of fresh air to the University.” She has, indeed. A breath of fresh, sickly sweet, cotton-candy scented air that’s beginning to turn the dourest place on earth into a lavender plantation. It’s a rainbow-riffic new era—who wants red brick when you can have gingerbread instead...
...song where friend rhymes with end") and really comes out of her shell on Song No. 6, a sweet, stomping duet with fellow melancholic Ron Sexsmith. Most compelling of all is her voice--a mix of Bjork's unpredictability and Joni Mitchell's directness that makes even the dourest material affecting...
...most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career, one of the audience members asking questions was Faye Dunaway, still glamorous 34 years after Bonnie and Clyde. This Riviera fortnight always has enough stardust to dazzle the dourest soul...
...merge Plessey with another firm, one possibility being Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., an aircraft and diesel-engine manufacturer. And he can always hope for a miracle, like the government's withdrawing its approval of the proposed merger. In the U.S., the Justice Department would cast the dourest eye on a get-together between such large competitors. But Harold Wilson's government, as the Sunday Times puts it, could hardly stamp out a merger that "represents a culmination of its policy for modernizing British industry...
...dialogue is archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...