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...calisthenics), and the Little Swamp of Horrors, which sports a killer bush. Clever choreography around the curtain spares the audience the tiresome delays of scene changing--a blessing, since, when a show's whole stock in trade lies in being collegiate, even a little high-schoolishness can turn it sour...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

Although the playful antics of the astronauts on television were greeted with praise and rapt attention throughout most of the world, the reaction to the flight from the other major space power was as sour as borsch. Soviet TV noted only that failures were continuing to plague the Challenger on "a routine mission." For three days, not a word was uttered about the historic space walks, although an old canard was repeated: that the shuttle had been built for sinister military purposes. In a display of competition, Moscow announced last week that three cosmonauts had been sent off to reoccupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Orbiting with Flash and Buck | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Kander-Ebb musical that opened last week on Broadway, is set on the ragged fringe of the New York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Amid all the praise for the nondrinking, nonsmoking Governor, a gentleman aboard from the Louisiana press decided that the cocktails all save Edwards were enjoying could use some sour grapes. He mentioned that the Governor had come close to being indicted several times. To this sort of talk, the Governor has answered, "People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors but I've never had brushes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...possible values of human society, one and one only is the truly sovereign, truly universal, truly sound, truly and completely acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money, and let there be no sour grapes about it from the losers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Mint Overnight | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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