Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sexier than Oh! Calcutta! and more emotional than A Chorus Line, each of which claims to be Broadway's longest-running show ever -- plus richer in social history and sheer fun -- Ain't Misbehavin' deserves a place alongside them into eternity...
...autocrat but a dotard whose authority has long been a polite fiction. His plans for dividing the kingdom are a surprise to no one; his daughters' resistance to his extravagant wanderings are no meanness but utter common sense in the face of senility; the brutality they eventually show is brought on by invasion and civil war, both instigated by their holier-than- thou sister. Hutt superbly manages Lear's transition from apparent lucidity to frank madness. In the most inspired moment of stage interpolation, his repeated demand as to whether the horses are ready comes as he is already bouncing...
...French origins, some on its Latin flair for celebration. It has been described as Mediterranean and Levantine. In 1960, when I first started writing about New Orleans, I told a man I knew there -- a wise man, who had spent his whole life in New Orleans, taking in the show -- that some of the goings-on connected with the desegregation of the schools struck me as, to put it politely, bizarre. "What you have to remember to keep it all in perspective," he said, "is that this is not the southern United States. This is northern Costa Rica...
After his Senate loss to Lloyd Bentsen in 1970, Bush saw all the upward paths to elective office blocked in Texas, and decided to risk his future with Nixon and diplomacy. Secret notes in the Nixon archives show that Bush admitted, after serving in the U.N., that he could hardly go back and run for office in the state where he had begun his career by denouncing the U.N. Less clear was that taking favors from Richard Nixon was a way of getting in line for trouble. Barbara Bush seems to have sensed this when she warned her husband...
...Show Business...