Word: importations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There hasn't even been a political trend worth mentioning -- the election signifying less a leftward trend than a rejection of the rightward trend, which has been slithering around for two decades now. As a result, we've been forced to import trends, like karaoke, or revive fossil trends like troll dolls, who first showed their wizened little rubber faces almost 30 years...
Despite its well-played humor, A Leap of Faith fails to make any impact. It doesn't leave you tingly, or touched or ecstatic, or depressed. It just begins and ends. The interim is a potpourri of humor and jumbled meanings which carry hardly any emotional import...
...director and coauthor) as Carne, coauthor Felicity Jones as leading lady Arletty and set designer Vincent Gracieux as screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Their brainchild is one of the foremost efforts this year on any U.S. regional stage. By a marvel of foresight, it will live further as the first-ever "import" into Yale Repertory Theater's season just after the Minneapolis run ends...
...care what the secret intentions of the framers were. I care about the import of the document," he said...
...tell a story about infanticide and make it into bravura cabaret. Rhythmic dancing heralded the beginning, sturdy men waddled onto stage with oh-so-low booming voices, and the dancers and performers artfully tripped over most of the set. Of course, there were the contemporary references of great import. You know the sort--men are shits, women are great, long live the individual. And then in the orgiastic confusion of the ending, Medea ascended in a spaceship, following a compelling rendition of children screaming as they died. Theater is wonderful...