Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write and an exam to take the next day. We lived in a five-person suite in Canaday, and three of us were home; I was studying in the common room, and two of my roommates were working in their singles, with the doors shut. I have no idea how long either of them had been there, or where they had been before that, or when they were planning on leaving. Because we were in the habit of retreating into our bedrooms and closing the doors, I only had the vaguest idea of when my roommates were home and when...
...SuperSonic Ear $20; Wild Planet Toys; ages 5 and up The idea is for kids to use this groovy parabolic-dish gun and headset to listen in on sounds of nature--caterpillars munching, woodland creatures scuttling--they wouldn't normally be able to hear. Neat concept. There's potential for danger--like accidentally pointing the dish at speakers while big brother is playing Metallica. But used sensibly (on nature--Yeah, right!), it could be lots...
Dancin' and singin' in the streets? Terrific. Just as it has been since Gene Kelly and friends pioneered the idea. A production number in a glamorous jewelry store--all sinuous chorus kids, wowing us with their giddy athleticism? Absolutely. It puts us in touch with the long-lost silliness of movie musicals. A romantic pas de deux on the banks of the Seine? Yes. And could we have seconds on that...
...realizing his deliriously original idea, Allen occasionally stumbles. Some of his transitions are abrupt, some of his jokes predictable. And after nearly three decades, it may be time to revise or retire his screen character. He's too old to keep playing a perpetually muddled romantic victim. But he wears his ambition winningly and, as a filmmaker, achieves a transcendence of his own, making something fresh and beguiling out of that middle-class, middlebrow angst he has so often explored...
...came up with the idea nearly 20 years ago, while working on Annie Hall. "I wanted to do a musical, but not for real singers and dancers," Allen explains. "I wanted people who could just act, and who would sing with all the emotion of people who are doing the best they can, but it's heartfelt. I went to my parents' 65th anniversary, and they danced. They can't dance. But it had more feeling to it than two people who go to dancing school for 50 years...