Word: elysian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics Jay Carr, Judith Crist, Leonard Maltin and of course Siskel and Ebert have now found such qualms are without foundation. With a directorial sleight of hand, a cast of seasoned pros and a cinematographer who can make suburban Seattle look like the Elysian Fields, Yorkin is able to turn a rather tired story of divorce and readjustment into what the such critics are calling this year's Terms of Endearment. Whatever one thinks of the movie itself, the man does know how to throw one heck of a tea party...
...particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage by Duell and Luders in the serene, lyrical "swimming" motion from Chaconne -- also set in Elysian fields...
...lucky will fly to Florida or Puerto Rico for spring training. For the rest of us, we must confine our sweat and adrenaline to the raftered halls of the I.A.B., the I.T.T., or Blodgett Pool, names that conjure up images of corporate investment firms instead of lush green Elysian fields...