Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promptly said, "No." Then he thought for a minute. He had often heard beautiful music on his radio, he said, but he had never actually seen a concert. "I think I'd like to be there," he said. "I'd like to see a real good opera singer...
This expensive, technically proficient remake of a 1933 German movie focuses on the adventures of a starving singer. Victoria (Julie Andrews) who is befriended by a failing gay nightclub entertainer. Toddy (Robert Preston). He appreciates her vocal talents and realizes how to market her. She becomes Victor, a delicate, unknown member of the Eastern European nobility who is Paris's greatest female impersonator. Enter King (James Garner), a Chicago gangster who becomes Victoria's love interest but refuses to accept the label of homosexuality his low-life companions attach to him because of his association with "Victor." Complications ensue...
Brezhnev's condition may have been aggravated by several developments in recent months. One was the shock of the death in January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, a longtime associate. Shortly thereafter, Brezhnev's daughter Galina was indirectly linked to a scandal involving a singer whom she had befriended...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
Such optimism would seem empty if Singer did not test his characters so severely while they achieve it. His no-nonsense prose prohibits moral posturing. All of these stories were written first in Yiddish, a language that draws rough vitality from the vernacular; Singer has seen to it that his many translators preserve the outspoken qualities of the originals. (Gimpel the Fool was rendered in English by Saul Bellow, a rare instance of one future Nobel laureate transcribing another.) And the passage of time has ratified Singer's vision of the living and the dead busily coexisting. The places...