Word: glorious
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According to Perot and his supporters, the political world is a mess. Gridlock and stagnation rule the day. The only people with voices are the special interests represented by the Washington lobbyists who are corrupting our glorious democratic system. Perot is the White Knight--ready to ride in from his outsider, above-the-fray, private-sector perch and purify democracy...
...Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend in My Living Room, "I've shed my tears in bitter drops/ Until the thorn trees bloomed/ To take the spiky fruit to crown/ Myself the Queen of Doom." The whole glorious album plays like an atonement for the excesses of the '80s. The punishment is remembrance...
What is actually onstage is a glorious eruption of color and comedy and confidence. Like the phalanx of limousines outside, it celebrates New York as the city longs to see itself -- stylish, street-smart, sophisticated, ; successful and, in comparison with Los Angeles, blessedly serene. For celebrities, Guys and Dolls has become a must-see. Last week Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were there; the week before, it was Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley. NBC correspondent and best-selling author Betty Rollin had to settle for standing room while reporting a story. Yet what gives the show an advance sale...
...Seven Fat Years, Bartley calls for a return to the policies that, he says, made the '80s a glorious epoch. Packed with statistics and sometimes eye-glazing arguments, the book tells how Bartley and such fellow supply- siders as economist Arthur Laffer and journalist Jude Wanniski cooked up the recipe for Reaganomics over meals at a Wall Street watering hole called Michael 1. The basic ingredients were tax cuts and a monetary policy capable of producing low and stable interest rates. "As 1982 drew to a merciful close," Bartley writes, "both sides of the Michael 1 prescription were finally coming...
...first-rate upholstered mama. Tonya Pinkins is sultry, sharp-tongued and sweet-voiced as Morton's love interest. Savion Glover, 18, outdoes his own brilliant best in tap-dancing the role of the young Jelly. And as the mature Jelly, Gregory Hines vibrates with the kind of glorious triple-threat talent -- as singer, dancer and actor -- that Broadway used to revel in but hardly ever witnesses anymore...