Word: savors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farrell, 42, who had a new plastic hip, performing with her in his version of Sophisticated Lady, set to the Duke Ellington song. The finale, danced like fireworks by Kyra Nichols, came from Balanchine's ebullient Stars and Stripes. It was just like old times, and everyone wanted to savor the nostalgia...
Whereas ferries were once dismissed by many as too expensive, rising tolls and parking costs have made them a bargain. Converts savor the other benefits: comfortable vessels, snack bars and reclining seats, fresh air and a relaxed atmosphere...
Director Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering...
...which they have prayed all their pinched and gloomy lives. And Axel is a worthy saucier's apprentice. His orchestration of this parable matches her culinary skills in subtlety, verve and perfect taste. From soup to cognac, Babette's Feast is delicious, a meal that memory will forever savor...
Those with a taste for literary allusions will find more to savor here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...