Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Ruddygore is eminently entertaining, filled with the usual assortment of rapid-fire patter, romantic solos, and melodramatic ditties by the choruses. Perhaps one of the least known operettas, it has an intricately woven, often convoluted plot that contains more horror and violence than standard G & S fare such as...
The Sondheim-as-Jacques-Brel image to which Marry Mc A Little pays homage is among the more limited of these roles, perhaps because it is set so firmly in one particular milieu. The songs that make up this essentially plotless revue about a man and woman--each alone on...
The songs themselves, though they never coalesce into any particular logical sequence, offer a good deal of emotional food for thought. Sondheim almost never gives into the simplistic. All 19 songs fall into the relationships genre which is his specialty, treating first thrill breakup and all the shades of happiness...
Succeeding Devaney in 1973 was not an instant pleasure for Osborne, who has a Ph.D. in educational psychology, the minimum degree of learning required for understanding college football fans. Maintaining a successful football program is less romantic work than constructing one, though no less hazardous. It took ten years, but...
It is not American missiles--which the West Europeans first urged us to bring--strategic musings about nuclear war fighting, the casual remark about nuclear war of the first year or so of the Reagan administration, or the Reagan military build-up which created the neutralist climate in West Germany...