Word: snip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scandal, whose producers had to snip a few naughty bits from the Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
...Wagoner little solos in Aureole to keep him interested without handing him a fat part. Wagoner, Tharp, Senta Driver and Laura Dean all left Taylor to start successful troupes of their own. He is rueful: "They look to me for direction -- want tugs from their puppeteer boss -- and then snip the strings . . . competing with the great guy who first hired them. The nerve...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company, 18 strong these days, is now presenting a repertory in New York City that demonstrates the vast resources of this protean figure. Soon two young dancers, David Parsons and Douglas Wright, will snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...
...effort to snip the budding fake identification industry, the state Registry of Motor Vehicles plans to add extra safeguards designed to prevent those under 21 years old from using altered licenses to buy liquor...
There were ten very bad years, with a turbulent time before and periods of hard uncertainty after. Don Everly is 49 now, and he says, "I'd love to snip those years out of my life. Re-edit my life, rearrange it if I could, reassemble my life like a film. I'd like to put those ten years on another planet...