Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JEAN-LUC Godard is one the less compromising critics of our age, and his severity can undercut his effectiveness. It certainly limits his popularity. Few of us enjoy being made to feel like a Godard character-no one likes getting run over...
...Jean Kerr's comic touch is slightly anesthetized this time out, but she has not lost it. She couldn't. That would be out of character for the author of Mary, Mary and the droll chronicler of suburban domesticity who regaled us with Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines. Trust her to keep a civilized, witty tongue in her head whatever her characters' antics. Lunch Hour is a tale of extramarital hanky-panky without the id. Oliver (Sam Waterston) and Nora (Susan Kellermann) have rented the upper half...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works, how we as playgoers are carried across the threshold from reality to illusion in the twinkling of a craftsmaster...
Under the telling direction of Andrei Serban, the revival at Manhattan's Public Theater embraces all these aspects of Chekhov in part or in whole. The cast is admirable, and Serban's painterly eye groups them in configurations that enhance Jean-Claude van Itallie's faithful and felicitous adaptation of the text. Best of all, this production captures the ruminative pauses in Chekhov when people seem to be listening to faint, melancholy music borne across still, nocturnal waters...
...fashion world, where imitation used to be the sincerest form of flattery, is also suffering from this kind of larceny, especially since trademarked designer goods have become big business. Laments Jean-Marc Depoix, commercial director for the Christian Dior fashion house in Paris: "This excessively developed taste for the visual signature of the designer has favored the increase of copies. Not only are such well-known logos easy to identify when worn by customers, but they are easy to reproduce by counterfeiters." The French fashion industry alone estimates that it loses roughly $500 million in annual revenues to counterfeiters...