Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the coup was preceded by weeks of rumors in Cairo that the exiled Nimeiri would soon stage a comeback, but his desire to return to power seems unrelated to last week's revolt. It was apparently a homegrown plot led by impatient brigadier generals, not the senior command. The political direction of the new regime is uncertain, but the draconian nature of its decrees indicates that the new leadership means business. Its first orders: the dissolution of parliament and political parties, a ban on political opposition, the disbanding of labor unions and the cancellation of newspaper licenses...
...thing is clear, though: the intensity, scope and expense of the Government's reaction to Bracy's March 1987 statement would have been far different if the stage had not been set by a series of interagency disputes about security in Moscow...
...trouble is that rude realism keeps raising its voice, breaking in on the fun. The sound track naturally resounds with the orgasmic hammering of the Lewis beat, wails with the simple, not to say crude, sexual metaphors of his lyrics. Dennis Quaid very successfully re-creates his dervish-like stage presence (he made Elvis' pelvis look as if it were stuck in the mud) in a portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these...
...never abandoned the stage, I never left the stage, I only took time," said Van Cliburn, who had not appeared in a public concert or made a recording in nearly eleven years. It was 2:30 a.m., Cliburn's favored hour for interviews, since he usually sleeps from 5 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon. As he talked about his return to the stage that he had never left, he grew increasingly adamant. "I never retired, and I don't think that classical musicians do. It's unthinkable...
...composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself. "I am the furthest thing from a recluse," he says. And somehow the first year off stretched into eleven. Then what inspired his return to the stage? "I don't know," he says. "I was invited. I think I'll just ease into the water...