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...scramble at the end of the day to cram in shopping, laundry, cooking, ; mending -- and, oh, yes, communication. Quality time had become a bitter cliche: a concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments. Children could not be expected to schedule all their needs in a prime-time slot. Adults found they had to work harder to hire people to do the work they had no time for: raking the leaves, fixing the porch, taking care of the kids and even cooking meals...
...Best Bad Actor (Senior Division) showed that an aging tennis ace can climb into a semifinal slot at the U.S. Open by behaving like a colicky two- year-old. Gentleman Jim, 39, disputed an umpire's ruling with such epithets as "son of a bitch" and "an abortion." Some spectators guessed that Connors had seen too many Robert De Niro movies -- or too many John McEnroe videotapes...
...Best Bad Actor (Senior Division) showed that an aging tennis ace can climb into a semifinal slot at the U.S. Open by behaving like a colicky two- year-old. Gentleman Jim, 39, disputed an umpire's ruling with such epithets as "son of a bitch" and "an abortion." Some spectators guessed that Connors had seen too many Robert De Niro movies -- or too many John McEnroe videotapes...
...Turkish scene at the end of the first act. Such exotic interludes were a vogue in the 18th century, and Corigliano and Hoffman mock the form with glee. The setting is an outlandish reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley, and you are in a valley . . ."). It's diverting and spectacular...
...than at any time since his death in 1965. His daughter Natalie reprised his Unforgettable earlier this year, laid in her dad's voice for a posthumous duet and grabbed herself a No. 1 album. A new Cole biography was published this spring. Every time PBS has a time slot to fill or needs to kick off a fund raiser, it seems to air a show from Cole's '50s TV variety series...