Word: fey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tour of Duty is the war genre's L.A. Law, China Beach is its thirtysomething: narratively loose jointed, laced with ironic dialogue and moody introspection. Created by John Sacret Young (screenwriter of A Rumor of War) and former magazine editor William Broyles Jr., the show lurches between the fey (a macho war hero parachutes into camp and romances all the women) and % the loquaciously self-important, as if it were a sorority bull session with grenade sound effects. But the writing is a notch above standard-issue TV fare, and the show follows its own adventurous, if sometimes bumpy, path...
BEETLEJUICE. Is it the fey humor or the calypso tunes that have made this movie a monster hit? Most likely it is Michael Keaton's turbodrive performance as a haunt who is hot to party...
Though I admit the verse can sometimes be fey...
Similarily, Andra Gordon does a marvelous job as the ambiguously innocent Agnes. She treads the narrow line between insanity and sainthood with all the fey grace that could be desired. As she floats across the stage, she resembles nothing so much as an unnaturally ethereal pre-Raphaelite saint, with her haze of red hair and huge desperate eyes. Her feet scarcely seem to touch the ground. She appears moored to the earth by only the most fragile of bonds, ready at the slightest inclination to cast off her moorings and soar off the stage. It is perhaps fortunate...
...Lotte Lenya serenading from a sidecar, but she is completely lacking in either melodrama or self-pity. Songs like Penthouse Serenade and Boulevard of Broken Dreams ("And gigolo and gigolette/ Wake up to find their eyes are wet/ With tears that tell of broken dreams") are the sort of fey selections reliably included on subscription-only albums by chanteuses who play hotel lounges in off- season. Faithfull, however, endows them with real gutter sophistication -- the Boulevard of Broken Dreams never sounded like a mean street before -- and that is the essence of a pure rock-'n'-roll heart...