Word: portering
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...Nazis hadn't existed, moviemakers of the '70s might have invented them. The whips and whimpers, the glistening boots, the macho marching songs, the sado-chic -my dear, the divine decadence. It's all so terribly cinematic. Cabaret and The Night Porter set the stage; Just a Gigolo lights it in elegant chiaroscuro and populates it with every species of eccentric known to Weimar Berlin. Marlene Dietrich (her first film since 1964) intones the title song. David Bowie makes love to Kim Novak in a cemetery. David Hemmings (who also directed) plays a Nazi who turns Bowie...
...York City, wooing a sophisticated lady can break even a most happy fella. Take Broadway tickets. In 1953 it cost $7.20 for an orchestra seat to Cole Porter's musical Can-Can, starring Gwen Verdon. The 1981 revival (same show, same seat) costs $30 on a Saturday night. Taking a cab from Times Square to the elegant Plaza Hotel would have cost 60? in 1953, but today it is about $2.20, without traffic jams-or tip. Once at the Plaza, French pastries in the glow of the crystal hurricane lamps of the Palm Court come dear...
...world, Short is the very symbol of elegance, style and an easier way of life: penthouses, champagne and buckets of dry wit. Not too long ago, his appeal seemed largely confined to New York City. Now just about everybody seems to be enchanted by Bobby and his friends-Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Cy Coleman and Stephen Sondheim. By the end of April he will have appeared in Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. At the end of this week he will entertain the Reagans and their special guest, Prince Charles, at the White House-his third gig at the Executive...
...stunningly. Steve Nieve puts some jolly tinkling all over the album, but I can't help feeling that he's a bit of a middlebrow even as he's sending up middlebrow music. That's okay; I'm a bit of a middlebrow myself, and Elvis loves Cole Porter and Burt Bacharach. So "You'll Never Be a Man" comes out a dandy pop tune, Elvis blithely propositioning a poor woman who's "under the table with a chemical snake." (People think they're tough in this world, but they're jellybeans.) "Pretty Words" ("don't mean much anymore/I...
...heading for a score. That Reagan was proposing to undo a lot of Johnson's "too great society" was another of the wonderful ironies of this risky moment in U.S. affairs. "Reagan is not the first person to talk this way," points out Harvard's Roger Porter, who worked in Gerald Ford's White House, "but Reagan is the first President to act this way." Reagan has burst upon the academic reveries of the historians and political scientists as something-at last-real. He is no longer celluloid. "There is a logic to his boldness," says Porter...