Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are to the TV set that drones forlornly in the school's recreation room. Yet Wiseman is remarkably nonjudgmental; his best scenes are poignant rather than pointed. A class of blind children lie on the floor while three teachers caress them with wispy fabrics and a piano plunks out Over the Rainbow. "I want you to think about pleasant things," says a teacher soothingly, "and I want you to let the music go all inside...
...meeting is a too- hot topic that remains pretty much unspoken: whether Dukakis should offer Jackson the second spot on the ticket (which he won't) and what will happen when he doesn't. Down in the lobby, Mark Gearan, a Dukakis spokesman, entertains drowsy reporters with a piano rendition of Getting to Know You from The King...
...seat Cort Theater, the kids assemble for a voice lesson under a maze of heating pipes and lighting wires. Take-out fried chicken, quarts of Tropicana are put aside. "Feel how loose your tongue is! Baaa, baaa, baaa," exhorts the teacher, an ivory- skinned redhead, hammering on a piano key with her index finger. The kids imitate the sound and start giggling. "Don't laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher. More giggles. When class is finally dismissed, the kids clatter...
...initial trip abroad as First Lady, Raisa jokingly said to Danielle Mitterrand, wife of the French President, "Give me some advice. I'm a beginner at this job." She learned fast, and quickly became a hit in the West. In Washington, accompanied by Van Cliburn on the piano, she and her husband made White House guests smile by leading the Soviet delegation in a rendition of a sentimental Russian favorite, Moscow Nights...
...puffing to reduce that upholstered posterior, expand that narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance a duet on giant piano keys embedded in the floor of a toy store. "It was exhausting, like jumping rope for ten hours," recalls Hanks...