Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, try ignoring Roxanne. It is a sleeper summer hit, Martin's biggest since The Jerk. It is based on an honorable property, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It dares to plump for the supremacy of two old-fashioned notions: romantic love as the meeting of true minds and the English language as a tool for wooing and wonder. The script challenges its star to be at once noble and fatuous, strong and swooning, utterly in control and desperately in love -- all of which Martin handles as gracefully as if he'd written it himself (which...
...initial burst of prosperity, the computer industry | fell into a two-year slump that some feared might signal a permanent slowdown in growth. The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits. The companies' stock prices have recovered, and some firms are hiring factory workers and sales people after a long spell of layoffs and attrition. Best of all, as far as customers are concerned, the computer companies have parlayed several recent technological breakthroughs into a passel of affordable, easy...
...economy has a rough road ahead. -- A family feud rocks Bacardi' s rum empire. -- Fake fat promises plump profits...
...they wrapped their former pharoahs in ace bandages and secreted them in vast, angular postmodern structures built of stone. Moslems, on the other hand, have traditionally thought of the afterlife as a paradise of inlaid patios and plashing fountains, in which the True Believer could sit forever, dandling plump breasted houris and rosy bottomed boys upon his knees...
...directors may for some Freudian hallucinatory explanation of Macbeth, for example, the story makes little sense unless the witches are actual witches. This doesn't mean the supernatural must be portrayed as exotic: the most chilling thing about those women might be their normality, as if they were plump, middle-aged matrons nattering across a backyard fence about their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role, the ghost-summoning Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's larkish Blithe Spirit, which was revived on Broadway last...