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...broadway classic "The Music Man," a slick con-artist arrives in the small midwestern town of River City and proceeds to convince the populace that they are facing an impending explosion of juvenile delinquency. The cause--a new pool hall that's just opened. The con-man tells the townspeople that the only way to save their children is to enroll them in a wholesome activity--a marching band--and then sells them expensive uniforms and instruments...
...enterprising Encores! series, Walter Bobbie's production is sleek, spare and diamond hard. The story of Roxie Hart is told in a series of fiercely stylized, irony-laced musical episodes. In the Cell Block Tango, Roxie's jailbird peers sing of the men they've bumped off. A slick defense attorney makes his entrance crooning "All I care about is love," accompanied by feather-waving chorines. In the climactic trial, Roxie beats the rap, only to be abandoned by reporters rushing on to the next sensational case. What seemed cynical in 1975 is now au courant. Chicago hasn't merely...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We are tired of our kids being afraid to walk to school alone...of illegal drugs that are poisoning our youth...of slick criminal-defense lawyers pushing criminals to freedom through legal loopholes...of seeing our prisoners treated better than the working men and women of this country...
...explaining, "A truly complex man, it would take years to fully understand him [Clinton]." The problem with understanding Clinton is that there isn't anything to understand--Clinton possesses no ideology, direction, or firm beliefs on any issues. Like a wet snake, if you tighten your grip on Slick Willie at any one point, he just pops out the other end. --Noble M. Hansen...
Peter suffers from a deep passivity, bred by East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...