Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically inclined credited his survival to the producers' having brought in five Shinto priests from Japan, before performances started, to purify the Marquis Theater amid the neon honky-tonk of Times Square. Skeptics complained that the blessing should have averted the freak accident altogether...
...took an hour's worth of textual cuts, the leading man's miraculous survival of a freak onstage accident, and blessings by five Shinto priests, but James Clavell's epic musical has arrived...
...film is determined to be about something less interesting than sexual combustion. Max is a neat freak, Nora a slob, so for a reel they play Oscar and Felix. She has no friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must break up and make up, and the ho boy! becomes ho hum. White Palace settles into stolid ordinariness, after flirting with being a handsome essay on the grandeur of reciprocal lust...
This life-style carries risk. "People freak out when they see us interact as a family," says Maria. Neighbors in their Hispanic district have escalated from hurling insults to flinging garbage to tossing firecrackers through an open window. Even in more tolerant communities, lesbians may face subtle discrimination. Angela Bowen, 54, a divorced, free-lance writer in Boston, has maintained a union with Jennifer Abod, 44, a media producer, for 11 years, but because the relationship has no legal status, Abod's health insurance will not cover Bowen or Bowen's daughter...
Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...