Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions, but fleeting and delicate. Eugene O'Neill once wrote about "the electrical display of God the Father." The fireworks of the Fourth were an explosive display of congratulation to America the idea...
...boys tipped the scales decidedly in their favor. No doubt about it: the Jacksons' tour is a real show-business extravaganza, a four-star eye-glazer and ear-bender replete with laser effects, magic tricks, assorted marvelous machines, sundry intermittent detonations, a finale full of fireworks... and, oh yes, a healthy portion of good solid funk. Soul Train meets Star Wars on the outskirts of Las Vegas. A lot of-quite literal-bang for the buck...
...Jackson 5 days. No readjustments have been made to accommodate him. It is, simply, that the audience's perception of him is different now, and a good deal larger. He remains what he always was: the animating force, the major muscle, the man-child with all the magic...
...male lovers, most of them married men. Along comes a wealth, sexy stranger. Darryl Van Horne. The witches all fall for him, he, after gratifying all three of them for a short while, marries a most unbe-witching girl named Jenny Gabriel. Shocked, the witches hex her (all the magic in the book is flatly effective), riddled with cancer. Jenny dies After her death. Van Horne runs away to New York City with Jenny's money and with her younger brother Chris, having been not a wealthy, sexy man but a money-starved homosexual Rather brusquely, the witches marry...
...writing and directing of films is both a vacation from and an extension of his stage work. In films from Smiles of a Summer Night to Fanny and Alexander, Bergman has celebrated that bare stage, on which actor and director collaborate with a willing audience to make a little magic. Now he has distilled his 40 years theater experience into a "small" film-one simple set, three speaking parts, 72 minutes-that is as direct, serene and human as any he has made...