Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Magic...
...values of city property--hence it will have to cut its collections in half. To lessen the shock, "2 1/2" proponents beneficently allow for a gradual phase-in--the city will only have to melt away 15 per cent of its fiscal cellulite a year until it reaches the magic level. So figure inflation prances along at 10 per cent next year; coupled with a 15 per cent reduction in city revenues that means about a 25 per cent budget cut for Cambridge. Or, in city manager Jim Sullivan's words, 100 policemen, 100 firemen, 250 or more teachers...
...precision instrument: the cuckolded husband must negotiate a labyrinth of plot twists before he opens his bedroom door at the split second his lovely young wife adjusts her peignoir and the milkman defenestrates himself. Farce demands ingenuity, grace and discipline - qualities in short supply on network TV. Occasionally those magic imps Penny Marshall (Laverne) and Cindy Williams (Shir ley) bring it off. Now Chris Thompson and Joel Zwick, two veterans of L & S, have devised Bosom Buddies (ABC, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). The first ep isode is as silly as its prem ise: two guys dress as women...
...Stunt Man never comes close to being the trashy, indulgent mess it could easily have been. The movie is rescued by its director's brilliant gamesmanship; Richard Rush is a brilliant trickster who can bring a magical, dancing glow even to lackluster materials. Despite all the superfluous innuendos of Meaning, the impotent love story, the seductive but empty-headed banality of the lady-star (Barbara Hershey), and a screenplay that at times suggests that talkies were a big mistake, Rush has created a nerve-tingling celluloid magic show. Rush is a master of the infinite details of the surface...
...with steely balletic precision by John Curry of ice-skating fame, and the Funeral Dance, performed with melancholy fury by Marina Eglevsky to a dirge of bagpipes. The guiding intelligence behind every moment of every scene belongs to Vivian Matalon, who makes of the director's craft a magic potion...