Word: mieux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors offhandedly counsel moderation as a holding pattern, something you do, cautiously and faute de mieux, until things go really wrong. But moderation is neither inspiring nor tasty. Most of us, lacking an urgent health reason to behave (e.g., recurring shortness of breath or pains in the chest), are liberals in the practice of moderation and harbor in ourselves the latent impulses of Farouk the Indulger. We revert to bad habits when the conscience naps, especially since the buildup of cholesterol and heart blockages occurs silently, invisibly, in the dark chambers of the chest...
...until the finale, when LuPone inexplicably appears 20 years older than she was moments before. While she is a fine if loud singer, he is at best ordinary. The supporting cast is without exception mediocre or worse, at a level unthinkable for Broadway, where this show is, faute de mieux, the most eagerly anticipated musical of the season to come...