Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visual count, Nostalghia offers two hours of strikingly beautiful scenery, laced with exotic-looking characters and outbursts of Russian poetry. The film out stylizes every one in recent memory--at the expense, however, of plot, character, dialogue, and other such standard fare; emerging instead is a scenic tour of Tuscany and of the director's subconscious...
...also had to think about all the scenic spots that you would be driving through on your way there. In Baltimore for instance, they've taken three downtown blocks, picked up the trash, planted a few trees and called it urban redevelopment. No need for travelers checks here. In Kentucky they have caves. "Come see the fantastic Frankfort caves!" Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend my vacation than crawling around in a cave. Signs everywhere tell you to watch out for the scorpions. Someone in the back of the tour group always reminds you, "They...
Where the scenic design leaves off, the custumary takes over. With furry pelts of calico and feline eyes of green, the cast members pounce from the stage into the audience, pawing and purring into surprised faces. Moving together as in an acrobatic ballet, gliding, jumping, and somersaulting, the actors truly resemble the animals they pretend (or maybe, aspire) to be. With the actors slinking on stage, the lights flashing and stroking, the carefully sculptured trash set, eerily bathed in an artificial moonlight glow, the illusion is complete. Only then are we ready to enter the world of the Jellicle Cats...
...from the show tunes and rock standards to the voices on Janie's telephone-answering machine (including the desperate plaints of Meryl Streep, in her best and most hilarious performance of the year), to the stagehands (who wear Acme Movers coveralls, then tuxedos, then jogging suits, as the scenic occasion demands). The cast is collectively splendid, with star-making performances by the two leads. Rose hits every mood, from rue to despair, with perfect pitch, like a manic-depressive Yma Sumac; and Banes, sharp and upscale sexy, looks ready to become an off-or on-Broadway Streep...
...March of this year, Reagan had become exasperated with critics who belittled his worries about a scenic tourist island whose main activity is producing about one-third of the world's supply of nutmeg. Declared the President: "It isn't nutmeg that's at stake in the Caribbean and Central America. It is the U.S. national security." In a TV speech 13 days later, he showed a classified photo of the Cuban barracks on Grenada and the growing airstrip. "Grenada doesn't even have an air force," Reagan said. "Who is this intended for?" He answered...