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...specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older the anecdote, the clearer in detail. Typical of her much analyzed years, she will forget the sentence before last but in the next will come up with a name from 1923 and a Gershwin lyric that, once sung, swims her back into a world she really occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Aged Mother | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound." That lyric, warbled by Hope and Crosby as they jounced along one of their more amiable roads back in 1942, is outrageous enough to have been penned by Rogers and Clarke, the comically dreadful songwriting team played by Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar. The two pictures share similarities besides their North African setting: agreeably low-keyed playing by their stars, a plot that involves them dangerously in local politics, and about the same quota of gags. There is one important difference: Ishtar cost roughly 40 times as much as Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: They Got What They Wanted ISHTAR | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Norman conquests: Table Manners--Lyric Stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ongoing Exhibits | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...Tony Award in 1969. The show originated in April 1985 at the Yale Repertory Theater, staged then as now by Y.R.T. Artistic Director Lloyd Richards. As his interpretation has ripened, Jones has found not only Troy Maxson's destructive fury but also his belly-shaking laughter, his lyric love of tall tales, his quicksilver charm, his stoic sense of duty and honor. & He manages to be at once real and of mythic proportions. The cast around him is also adroit, notably Mary Alice as his long-suffering but ultimately assertive wife, Ray Aranha as his best friend, and Frankie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Righteous In His Own Backyard FENCES | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...give movies a spurious Top 40 identity. This one is different, as kicky and eccentric as Jonathan Demme's inverted thriller (starring Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith), which it accompanies. Hearing these ten tunes is like checking into a padded cell inside a Wurlitzer. Listen to David Byrne's lyric for his salsa-inflected opening song, Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Discs Offer Sound Trips | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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