Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whoopi Goldberg, six monologues written and performed by a rag-doll actress with a bonkers stage name. Some of the skits are predictably poignant, and two just peter out. But the evening serves as an embossed calling card for stardom, presented by a scarifyingly gifted comic artist whose radiant smile even a cobra would be compelled to return...
...Jesus Christ Superstar. Last year, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof solidified the Society's reputation for being the campus representative for popular Broadway musical fare. Who knows--perhaps the religious undertones of these works were leading the gods to smile on the busy activity in Kirkland JCR? With the present production of Godspell, the Kirkland Drama Society returns to the days of Jesus, anticipating a triumphant return to the plains of Galilee. Unfortunately, divine inspiration seems to be wearing a little thin these days over in K-House...
...ANTI-ABORTION forces have a lot to smile about. Now that their best ally has been returned to the White House, they need only wait for two of those nasty old liberal Supreme Court justices to drop dead, and the evil Roe v. Wade abortion decision of 1973 will finally be vanquished...
...mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter...
Others were concerned less with the integrity of the donor than with the dignity of the recipient. At first, before Baby Fae's televised smile had beguiled skeptics, the word ghoulish was heard: some sacred barrier between species had been broken, some principle of separateness between man and animal violated. Indeed, it is a blow to man's idea of himself to think that a piece of plastic or animal tissue may occupy the seat of the emotions and perform perfectly well (albeit as a pump). It is biological Galileism, and just as humbling. Nevertheless it is fact...