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...Howard Ashman has adhered to Griffith's plot with becoming fidelity, while sending it up by adding a funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson...
...bottles hold goldfish and pickles. The EKG machine beeps out themes from Rocky, Jaws, Close Encounters and Pac-Man. The chief pathologist tells his students: "There are more than 20 bodily fluids, and I am proud to say I have tasted every one of them." A poodle and a boxer, both wearing yarmulkes, sit mournfully by the graveside of one Spot Moskowitz. Steven Ford, once a President's son, now a soap-opera regular, gets bopped on the head with a food tray. "Attention," a metallic voice announces over the hospital speaker system, "E.T., phone home...
...clear that he did not expect an instant da from the Soviets. "The President wanted to know if I needed some leather pants to be patient," he quipped. "I told him no. Karpov, like his namesake [World Champion Anatoli Karpov], plays chess. We in the West like to play Pac-Man. We like to see instant results, but it's not going to be that way." Indeed, the differences between the two sides-some left over from past negotiations and a few new ones-may make any agreement unattainable. The very selection of the chief negotiators symbolizes what...
...Like Pac-Man, Japan nibbles away at the U.S. market...
...what we hear about a space shuttle in every garage before the end of the century is true, learning the basics is probably inevitable, and Harvard should teach them efficiently and fairly. Perhaps then some of those poor souls throwing away their guaranteed student loans on Pac-Man and Alpine Ski could be lured into more productive space-age pursuits...