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Sinking to the lowest common denominator that made 10 a box-office success. Edwards stages one nightclub scene starring Norma (Lesley Ann Warren). King's old girlfriend a Chicago chorus girl with a Brooklyn accent. Singing a paean to the Windy City. Norma struts her stuff and the camera zooms in close enough to count hairs. Slapstick routines, the inevitable waiter with a large cream pie, also form a backdrop for the main action. A few yuks fall flat but most of the jokes sustain a low chuckle coming from the audience...
...club as a woman, while Toddy takes over her act. Contractual obligations and her relationship with Toddy are tossed aside, and Toddy's future is left uncertain. This not-so-subtle affirmation of middle America values comes as a disappointment after an enjoyable film, although everyone except Norma leaves the screen plenty happy with Victoria's decision...
...years ago, students supported things passively now people who care are doing something about it," says Norma L. Villarreal, president of the Law School Council. The council, which serves as the school's student governing body, also sponsors a free tax clinic for low-income and elderly tax-payers...
...David Emanuel, who with his wife Elizabeth whipped up the Princess of Wales' wedding dress: "I feel good when I put on an Armani jacket because the cut and balance are right. So easy, stylish, uncluttered. His distinguishing mark is clearly his tailoring." Adds the innovative American designer Norma Kamali, "I don't know a lot about Armani. But when I say to a guy he looks great, 99% of the time it's Armani he turns out to be wearing...
...nther Schneider-Siemssen, Hoffmann is the Met's most successful, satisfying effort in months. It is all the more welcome because the season, still somewhat colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) fizzled out in something less than Wagnerian glory. It was in December, with Franco Zeffirelli's lavish cast-of-thousands production of La Bohème, that the company began the return to form...