Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARD to excuse writer-director Elaine May for spending $40 million on Ishtar. The movie is no Heaven's Gate-style disaster--it's pleasant and silly and has some truly hilarious moments. But it just makes you wonder what she spent all that money...
...nice variety in the show. The best tune in his set was "The Rose of England," a somber and folky piece delivered without any of the irony that characterized Lowe's early work. With his cuffed jeans, loafers, and Everly-Brothers-inspired vocals, Lowe took the crowd on a pleasant ride back to the future, to the innocence and simplicity of '50s rock and roll...
That ability to turn old into new is the secret of Feinstein's appeal. His baritone voice is pleasant, if unmemorable, a little nasal when he reaches for high notes. But he has an unexampled way with old lyrics: he not only understands them but makes them sound as if they were being sung for the first time. "Some singers get in the way of the song," he says. "I never want to be more important than what I'm singing. I'm simply the instrument through which that song is sung...
...tangle onto the immaculate median strip and soon was laying down tracks at a cool 90 mph. Like many things in Russia, the weather here is designed for one purpose only: to ward off potential invaders. But with the wind in my hair the heat was quite pleasant, and I felt a quiet sense of pride at the American's ability to improvise lanes of traffic...
LIKE NEARLY every other Agatha Christie work, The Mousetrap features a group of people whom chance has thrown together in a secluded place and who have a murderer in their midst. Complete with the usual drawing room scene, Christie's play is as pleasant as it is familiar--or is it familiar? The plot turns might surprise even the most jaded mystery buff...