Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtitle, America's Magic Mountain, refers to Thomas Mann's novel of a sanatorium as microcosm. Fair enough; this lively history reflects a galaxy of medical and literary incidents. The cast is worth the entrance fee: W. Somerset Maugham and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walker Percy and Bela Bartok, and even Gerald and Sara Murphy, the '20s couple who decided that living well was the best revenge. They all had one thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease...
...performing an uproarious double bill about bad theater and worse reviewers: Tom Stoppard's staging of his own The Real Inspector Hound, followed by Sheridan's dizzying spoof of epic tragedy, The Critic, last seen on Broadway 40 years ago in a production that featured Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in roles that McKellen and Petherbridge play. Hound is a schoolboy-clever send-up of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world's also-rans. Delightful...
...next onscreen line was harder to forget: "Are you ready for me, Ralph?" The movie was Paul Brickman's uproarious young-'n'-dumb flick Risky Business, and no one was ready for De Mornay. She was a call girl with a heart of Kevlar, growling seductively at the stupefied Tom Cruise, who played a suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went...
...world below knew none of this until the next day, when the professional guide, Ralph Summers, 30, and experienced Student Climber Molly Schula, 17, struggled back down the trail to tell the awful news. That touched off one of the biggest U.S. mountain-search rescue operations ever. Local, state and federal searchers fanned up the mountain...
...despite its lack of elegance, Ralph Sampson's shot (read, "prayer") with no time left gave the Houston Rockets a 116-114 victory over the Lakers. After bouncing around the rim, that shot also propelled the Rockets into the NBA finals, making them the League's new Western power...