Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among postwar American entertainers, none provoked that question more often than a kitsch pianist with a scullery maid's idea of a regal wardrobe, who for more than 40 years attracted stalwart Middle Americans to romps that he himself once characterized as "just that far away from drag." As a musician, Liberace was a panderer: he edited classics down to four to six minutes because, he said, his audience would not sit still for anything longer. He sang and tap-danced competently, no more. From the early 1950s, when his syndicated TV show appeared ten times a week...
Three's Company gives television viewers a chance to see Jack in cohabitation with two sexy women. What fun they have--hanging out at the Regal Beagle and playing tricks on Mr. Furley. Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit also presents us with a man living with two women. But the members of this trio aren't as happy because they're dead and in Hell...
After all, where could they even go? Chrissy, Janet and Jack have dibs on prime-time. And there are no Regal Beagles in Hell...
...next public quarrel may be over who is the team's MVP -- regal First Baseman Keith Hernandez or political Catcher Gary Carter -- and whether whoever it is should automatically be the choice of the league. "We know they're good," sighs Cardinal Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but they act like they have to remind everyone all the time." Carter, Gooden, Hernandez, Darling, Outfielder Darryl Strawberry and Manager Davey Johnson all have memoirs out or on the way. But only now are they coming to their first critical series of the year...
Shakespeare would have had a fine time with Sigourney Weaver: creating Viola and Beatrice with her in mind, collaborating with her on the odd comic masterpiece, vagabonding through London in some very comely company. Shaw would have been smitten by her combination of regal beauty and irreverent wit, of life force and light farce. The old Hollywood masters of penthouse comedy would have embraced this screwball Garbo, alive and kicking up her heels...