Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...populated by figures reminiscent of Imelda Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Fidel Castro. Harvard's American Repertory Theater relocated Jean Genet's The Balcony, a transvestite dream of sexual corruption in high places, to an unspecified Latin city gripped by revolution. Says JoAnne Akalaitis, who staged The Balcony: the Latin flavor imports "a much more visceral energy" and leads to "an art that family history, romance, politics and the history of a nation all fit into...
...Wolfe writes in the introduction to The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he travelled to California at the behest of Esquire magazine, researching a story on custom-made automobiles. When it came time for Wolfe to write the piece, he found that he could not capture the flavor of his experiences in traditionally antiseptic journalistic prose...
...often loves it to death. One year there are three movies about gallant farm women battling fate and fortune; the next it's comic-book heroes saving the world or muscle-bound hulks trying to write a different ending to the war in Viet Nam. This year's flavor is a gentle fantasy about body switching: the young and old changing places with supposedly comic results. But 18 Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son were more frantic than comic, and it remains for Big, the last out of the gate, to show that this season's gimmick...
Without some kind of brake on development, the Square is doomed to lose all the homey, friendly businesses which gave it its flavor. Instead we may find a haven for the rich who can afford the soulless office buildings and expensive boutiques which are accumulating today...
...local cuisine. Run for three years by Bruce Naftaly, 34, and Robin Sanders, 35, the restaurant produces lackluster food and some needless extra irritants. The tone of service is both chummy and didactic. An unsmilingly intent preppie waiter offers the "observation" that the regular coffee has far more flavor than the espresso. As for ice cream, one can have it "nestled" beside a poached pear, but in the waiter's opinion, "it is good enough to stand on its own," a promise not fulfilled by the bland dessert...