Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novels borrow from E.G. comics and AIP movies. Even Broadway, long thought immune to adolescent fancies, has jumped on the trash bandwagon-at least in its musicals. Composers, librettists and directors ransack old Hollywood movies (42nd Street) and newer foreign films ("Nine"). They bow to rock 'n' roll for their subject matter (Dreamgirls) or their urgent tempo (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They find their heroines in comic strips (Annie) or in history that reads like cheap fiction (Evita). The message sounds clear as a cash-register bell: the way to make a hit is to recycle...
...Question 3, a ringing affirmative. The tiny stage of off-Broadway's Orpheum Theater is apulse with the engaging beat of Alan Menken's pastiche of infant rock 'n' roll. Librettist-Lyricist Howard Ashman has adhered to Griffith's plot with becoming fidelity, while sending it up by adding a funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops...
...Kids aren't just sitting there watching TV and playing video games." In fact, teen-agers appear to be buying their own books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express and Are You in the House Alone?, wrapped up in catchy cover art, are moving faster than Pac-Man manuals...
...when the Senate last week cast a suspenseful roll-call vote on the amendment, Byrd, Tower and Durenberger all voted for it. They were far from alone in saying aye to a measure they privately opposed. "If we were voting in a dark room," declared Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of only seven Republicans to go against the measure, "it might get six votes." But in the spotlight last week the amendment got 69, two more than the required two-thirds majority. Twenty-two of the Senate's 46 Democrats joined 47 Republicans, cheered...
...excitement only rarely produce science at Jonathan Swift's in the Square More often, you'll find blues, reggae, or some old-style rock and roll. The cover charge is usually moderate, and even the area's top bands such as the Stompers--play for at least three hours most nights. Arrive early or stand all night, especially when a nationally known act is in town...