Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling too, in this moment of generational change, that while the East looks to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, America reflects with longing back to the late John F. Kennedy, whose voice still rings resonantly from some younger, self-idealized national age, for answers. It would seem that the times are even ready for change in our own country...
...contemporary radio stations have noticed a drop in their listenership when Hall is on the air. The inevitable TV imitators are starting to appear, notably The Byron Allen Show on CBS, a Saturday-night talk show with another black comic as host. Even fuddy-duddies like Carson and Sajak seem to be feeling the heat. Would rock acts like Simply Red and Stevie B. have been booked in the days before Hall...
However, these insightful incidents are swamped by scenes in which Durang's dialogue is overstated and preachy. Too many lines seem to exist independently from the characters who deliver them, and when Prudence spouts, "I don't want any more therapy. I want tennis lessons," she doesn't seem to believe this, herself. Virtually every sentence in this play is declarative, and when characters are forced to say such lines as, "Please don't say pretentious things; I get a rash," it's as if the audience is listening to a speech rather then watching a play...
...Before You Accuse Me," you just might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble...
...Still says, "I can't seem to get anyoneinterested in it. No one seems to understand...