Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have been Fosse's idols, but he had none of their open-hearted romanticism. Instead, he crammed his dances full of sexual imagery so harsh and loveless that you can't help wondering what made him so successful a womanizer...
...there, citing a bad back and advancing age. And Bob Barr made a very public boycott, saying that it was inappropriate for the President to speak before the people who are currently judging him. And throughout the State of the Union, Republicans could be seen primly sitting or looking sour while President Clinton gave the speech of his life. But afterward, rather than raising the impeachment scandal, members of the GOP mostly confined their gripes to White House policy -- which is just what Clinton wanted. "The President is trying to set up the same trap as last year, which...
...story on monstrous houses that tycoons build, focusing on Bill Gates' "high-tech haven," smacked of sour grapes. If Gates has wealth that he earned by hard work, let him enjoy it and spend it how he chooses. Don't resent it when people have amassed a lot of money through their labors. They deserve to live any way they want. JAYANTHI DE ALWIS Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...cost to the government: zero. That proposal was put on ice by project leaders, supposedly because the DOE had contracted with Venter without checking with other project members, and also out of fear that the release of information to the public might be delayed. Unofficially, it's clear that sour grapes over Venter's latest triumph played a role in their decision...
...goods. Philip Hensher's sneering libretto tells the scabrous story of the decline and fall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (the "Mrs. Sweeny" of Cole Porter's You're the Top), who liked to do the Full Monica on her male servants. Ades' score is a glib farrago of sour, splintered vocal writing, postmodern pastiche and cartoony sound effects. Is this the music of the future? No, just further proof that the now exhausted classical-music avant-garde is repeating itself--this time as camp...