Word: gorgeous
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Last November New Yorkers turned to Dinkins in the hope that the cautious and gentle veteran clubhouse politician would heal the rifts among them and offer a modicum of racial peace. "A Gorgeous Mosaic" became the 63-year-old grandfather's metaphor for his divided city, and he pulled together an ethnically diverse electorate to become New York's first black mayor by a narrow margin. Dinkins has named more minorities to top-level staff positions than any mayor before him and has drawn on a national pool of talent to fill posts in his administration. With little fanfare...
BLACK AND BLUE. Tony winner Ruth Brown seemed irreplaceable as the comic heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
...rule, cookbooks with big, beautiful pictures should be avoided. The more pictures, the fewer recipes. But my second favorite new book is Pacific Flavors by Hugh Carpenter (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $35). The gorgeous photography is by Teri Sandison, but it can be forgiven because of the imaginative excellence of the recipes. Carpenter's aim is to blend Oriental flavors with American cooking techniques, thus preserving the flavors of the East but eliminating many of the more tedious steps required in traditional Eastern recipes. Even the Oriental flavorings he uses are now fairly common grocery-store items...
...Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys --has a wonderful eye for mixing film media, toned film with color film with grainy black and white. The cuts between short scenes are nothing short of brilliant, and the segues between fantastic and real scenes breathtaking. Schumacher chose an appropriately gorgeous and gothic campus (Loyola University in Chicago), as well as sparse city streets that are supremely atmospheric, and bathed them in haunting blue light, tatters and haze...
Molly (Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze) are your typical Manhattan duo. They are smart, caring and gorgeous; they live in a fabulous loft. When they make love, to Bobby Hatfield's orgasmic rendition of Unchained Melody, the sex is so beautiful you could die from it. Too soon, Sam does die -- he is murdered -- in a plot twist that anyone can unravel in an eyewink. Now stranded between heaven and earth, he must use the gifts of a sassy psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to alert Molly of threats to her life -- and, while he has her attention, to make mad pash...