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...BOYS. The definitive Bette Midler movie -- all music, sass and high emoting -- is also a jazzy panorama of pop culture for half an American century. And even if you skip the movie, get the sound track, which features Bette's great and knowing pipes on excavated swing tunes like Billy-a-Dick and Stuff Like That There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 23, 1991 | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Wednesday: Beth Sass Band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUBS | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...that the commotion has died down and the album been released, one thing must be said: Michael sings better than Bart. Dances better too. But Bart has the edge in humor. Dangerous lacks only the Simpson sass to make it a dazzler. As it is, the album is merely terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out Front | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...Cirque Invisible has the wit and wonder of some half-remembered childhood reverie, as well as some of the contemporary sass of Penn and Teller. But Le Cirque is not quite invisible. To make it appear full-blown, in all its winsome glory, the audience must supplement the inventions of its two creator- performers, Victoria Chaplin and Jean Baptiste Thierree, with creativity of their own. It is an aerobic workout for the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerobics for The Imagination | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...that's just sass. The movie is really about the ghetto epidemic of drugs, an issue Lee has dodged until now. Less than a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, this is a Guess Who's Going to Hell, because Jungle Fever locates its primal power in Felliniesque scenes of Harlem crack palaces and epochal confrontations between the drug-addicted and the drug-inflicted. The essential action is not horizontal (mating games across color lines) but vertical (poisoning the family tree, pitting father against son). Who is sleeping with whom matters less here, as it should anywhere, than the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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