Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This season, however, Broadway has three new musical productions that reclaim the giddy simplicity of the past. Only one, the Caribbean fable Once on This Island, is entirely new. Buddy, a biographical sketch of rocker Buddy Holly, who died in 1959, naturally features his old hits. And Oh, Kay! straddles the line between being a revival of the 1926 Gershwin success and an imaginative reworking of its raw material. Strikingly, these stories of boy meets girl all take place long ago or far away. Apparently our times remain too cynical for headlong romance close to home...
Disheartened by their mothers' guilt during the '70s and their older sisters' exhaustion hauling baby and briefcase through the career traffic of the '80s, today's young women have their own ideas about redefining the feminine mystique. When asked to sketch their futures, college students say they want good careers, good marriages and two or three kids, and they don't want their children to be raised by strangers. Young people don't want to lie, as their mothers did, when a baby's illness keeps them from work: they expect the boss to understand. Mommy tracks, daddy tracks, dropping...
...Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes of a man who's written and played fine music, produced films (The Color Purple) and records (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and generally become an immutable force of show-business nature. Sort of a David O. Selznick as soulman...
...satiric art can give." To be sure, the festival's artists ridiculed the communist system, but their works might make the First Lady's hair stand on end. Many of them, on display until Oct. 23, are scatological in nature; others are bitterly antireligious. Among the entries: a Soviet sketch featuring a man nailing himself to a cross and a Norwegian caricature of the Pope wearing a condom on his head. The exhibition, which was organized by WittyWorld, a U.S.-based magazine of international cartooning, also includes many sculpted depictions of male genitalia. Notes an American visitor: "These are people...
Souter's vague sketch is not enough when the rights and lives of millions are at stake. The Senate Judiciary Committee should call Souter back for more questioning now, and refuse to recommend his confirmation until he tells what he thinks about a number of key issues, including abortion...