Word: papas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richardson) is a vignette from 1925 Spain. At a dusty rural railway station, a writer with wanderlust (James Woods) and his pregnant girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) warily discuss what is never explicitly mentioned: an abortion. Writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion produced dialogue that is Earnestly true, not faux Papa. Woods, edgy as usual, and Griffith, her little- girl voice on the edge of tears, generate real sexual tension...
FURTHER MO'. In this sprightly off-Broadway sequel to One Mo' Time, written and directed by Vernel Bagneris, long-legged, loose-jointed Papa Du (Bagneris) leads his squabbling trio of red-hot mamas through a re-creation of black vaudeville in the 1920s. Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a standout as Big Bertha, and the five-piece band, led by clarinetist Orange Kellin, delivers up a joyous mix of blues and ragtime that leaves the audience shouting...
...fictional Zenith, George Babbitt brags about boosterism. In Boston, a Tappet brother asks, "Does the transmission go clunk before or after you let in the clutch?" In Paris, Papa Wemba recalls his days as Zaire's most popular folk singer. And in New Orleans, Dr. John bellows the blues from the stage of the Colt 38 Club...
...country, the Congress and the media are demanding a peace dividend. Papa Bush sternly refuses to give it to them. For that he is assailed as being out of sync, out of touch, overprudent, weird even...
...Papa Bush is right...