Word: goldberger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some joker will pull up a chair and mike to rave on about his failed love affairs. What's more, these thespian monomaniacs are starting to break out of the Off-off Broadway ratholes they call home, colonizing the fair lands of film and legitimate theater. Whoopi Goldberg, Ann Magnuson, and Spalding Gray have all made the big break into films, the latter with a brilliant meditation entitled Swimming into Cambodia...
...tough. She can be vulnerable. Whoopi Goldberg is a bundle of funny, appealing characters in search of an author. Bob Goldthwait is a stand- up comic of surreal mien who spits out his wit in the strangulated voice of an idiot savant after a go at the glue bottle. Both of these gifted comics are trapped in Hugh Wilson's Burglar, an affable movie that is all plot and no common sense...
...Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is so busy, and Goldberg and Goldthwait (as her best friend) have so many boring obligations to its improbabilities, that the movie seems an unnecessary intrusion on its leading players...
...giant subterranean circle with a few buildings topside. After creating jobs at the outset for 4,500 construction workers, the SSC will attract a work force of 2,500 scientists, engineers and technicians, and provide a lure for federal and private research dollars. Says Syracuse University Particle Physicist Marvin Goldberg: "It's hard to think of a classier project...
...side stadiums for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The structures are playful siblings, not identical twins, the forms clearly modern but vaguely ancient. What Tange has called "two huge comma shapes out of alignment" reminds us how satisfying form following function can be. Instead of the usual Rube Goldberg arena system of numbered entrances and exit ramps, the single wide mouths of the Olympic stadiums show themselves unequivocally...