Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...REAL--OR RATHER, GET UNREAL. TO Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar is a movie [CINEMA, Sept. 18]. Remember what that means? Fantasy. Make-believe. Fairy tale. A genre that is not always designed to inspire moral judgments or politically conscious statements. It aims to entertain, which To Wong Foo does delightfully. What if the story line is predictable? Name a fairy-tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still...
...London, 1944. Marian Ames, the ever-so-gracefully-aging screen queen, is fronting an all-girl band to entertain the Eighth Air Force with tunes that spotlight some of the era's premier lyricists. They play Frank Loesser's Love Isn't Born, It's Made; Johnny Burke's Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes and His Rocking Horse Ran Away; Don Raye's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rhumboogie and Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar. As in any creative assembly, there are spells of emotional fireworks. But the ladies play and sing handsomely, even during an air raid...
...latest evidence from the Senate suggests that we still entertain much of our former absolutist self-image. We would like to keep our royal prerogative in international affairs, but are unwilling to recognize the new diplomatic environment in which we will have to exercise it. Affirming our superpower status with nuclear subs and Star Wars hardly moves us in the right direction; the Senate's resolution threatens to seriously derail our central role in the development of collective security...
...even without cameras." Journalists fear that the twin decisions to bar cameras from the Smith and Klaas trials set a dangerous precedent. "The O.J. thing is an aberration," says Wade Ricks, a CNN field producer. "Trials can be handled in a thoughtful manner so that they instruct, enlighten and entertain." And Jane Kirtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press maintains that had the public not seen the shaky prosecution case in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the subsequent acquittal would have provoked an outcry. "[Trials are] the public's business," she says. "It is The People...
Sunday night, students go back to their dormsfor a lengthy and somewhat interesting proctormeeting. Lengthy because the proctor will go overa neverending list of administrative rules.Interesting because this is the first look atintricate-but-oh-so fascinating dorm relations.Students can entertain themselves during theproctor's "be supportive of each other" speech bystudying the other dorm inhabitants and pickingout The Loner, The Social Butterfly, The Kid Who'sRumored To Have A Perfect SAT Score But No One'sReally Sure, The Shoulder to Cry On Kid and TheAnnoying as Hell...