Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Congress member or Administration official dares inform these people that for years they have been getting more than they deserved? "Everyone right now is standing like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, pointing in both directions and looking to see who goes first," says Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee. "Clearly this reform will not be successful without President Clinton's leadership," says William Roth, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Clinton, however, has only asked his economic team to evaluate the report of that panel, which was headed by Michael Boskin...
...these "curry westerns" or "wet-sari musicals" have been released in North America, in theaters or on video. So Scarecrow Video's issuing of God Is My Witness, in a handsome, digitally remastered print, is an event worth singing about, as any Indian film hero would...
...performed in an unusual but convincing manner. Instead of the traditional interpretation of Dorothy as a child who is actively seeking her way home, Smith plays a wide-eyed, younger Dorothy who is pulled around the land of Oz by her new-found friends. As such, these friends, the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion, become much more important to the action and motion of the plot...
...Both the Scarecrow (Gregory David) and the Tinman (Brad Waskewich) are well played, and Waskewich, through shrugs and gestures, is especially good at including the audience in the action on stage. Bashir Salahuddin's Lion is one of the show's strongest characters and, unlike David and Waskewich, Salahuddin sings as impressively as he acts. Despite this strong cast, the scenes of dialogue throughout the first act are beset by frequent problems with timing. The flow of the dialogue is constantly interrupted by small pauses which prevent the plot from progressing smoothly. Fortunately, the many musical numbers are carried along...
...back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke the bucolic grit of rural America. At the same time, his longstanding commitment to Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson in 1985, gave his prairie- roots message an activist urgency...