Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself and the song, and mops up the audience as well. Her cover versions of all these songs make the originals sound like demo tapes...
...Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about the sexual duplicity of the middle class...
...David Souleles, 21, a psychology student at the University of California at Irvine, the issue of whether to be tested for exposure to the AIDS virus is a simple one. Souleles, a homosexual, openly acknowledges the possibility that he may have been infected with the virus through previous sexual contact. But now he practices what has become known as "safe sex," and, he says, "the information that I'll receive from the test is not going to help me become more safe. If I find out I'm positive, there's nothing I can do about it anyway...
...racial equality along sexual lines, thus
...girls, now prostitutes, conducted their business in the back seats of cars, and the bullfighters in the final act made their entrance in motley cholo low riders. So far, so shocking -- but only if one believes that Carmen is about the working conditions in Spanish cigarette factories, instead of sexual obsession, violence and death. In fact Pountney did not go far enough. Micaela -- a character not found in Merimee's gritty original novella -- was her conventional, boring bourgeois self, and the reserved British performers did not really get the sleaze factor right. This should have been Carmen: Beyond Thunderdome. Still...