Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss built his operetta around the flimsiest of comic opera conventions, but it's loved nonetheless for its infectious waltzes. No matter what performers do to this durable music, it will intoxicate listeners. Lowell's Fledermaus refuses to take Strauss's joie-devivre seriously--which is no sin in itself--but director J. Scott Brumit fails to provide a substitute, leaving the show to wander in a wasteland of farce, sarcasm, and tastelessness...
...they are working." So far, however, the results are not very impressive. One show, Coed Fever, was taken off the air after the first outing. Others, like Paper Chase, have been switched around so often that no one knows from week to week where they will be-a scheduling sin now committed by all the networks. "When they moved our show up to 10 o'clock on Tuesday our ratings picked up substantially," says John Houseman, 76, who plays the world's most formidable law professor in Paper Chase. "Now we are back to 8 p.m. against Happy...
...University of Massachusetts--Boston professor who asked to remain anonymous has taken an intellectual view of the situation. "I believe in original sin," he said. "This country is greased on money; as long as it's a capitalist system this sort of thing will happen," he added...
Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, on so-called nuisance taxes: "I call them sin taxes, you know, on cigarettes, liquor, gambling. The reason they can pass sin taxes is that the sinners aren't organized. How many drinkers are organized...
...nothing but a collection of hokey cliches. In the first five minutes, we see sledding kids, skating kids, kids watching TV, kids delivering the newspaper, daddies shoveling the sidewalk, mommy driving the car. Then comes religion--the snowy church, icons on the wall, grace before dinner, and discussions of sin among the men. The images peak as the kids are packed off on a church trip to California. Kids and church, church and kids...