Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the New Right took on Jim Folsom, who had beaten Democratic Senator Donald Stewart in the primary. An intense ad campaign suggested that Folsom was backed by the Democratic National Committee and therefore supported its stands on ERA, gun control, federal funding of abortions, and gay rights. Not only did Folsom endorse none of those positions, but he insists he took no money from the D.N.C. On Nov. 4, Folsom lost, 48% to 51%, to Denton. The Moral Majority, says Folsom, had "a tremendous effect on my defeat...
...staged. Bad enough, for fainthearts in the audience, that the first act contains a lynching, a throat cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around the vast stage of the Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down...
...upbeat Al Stewart tune on the public address system is cut off in mid-chorus; drums roll, and "The Star Spangles Banner" swells in its place. The slightly bewildered shoppers rise from their seats. Some giggle nervously, some slouch, most stand at attention...
...jungle of color, an obstacle course of clutter. The plethoric flowers do serve a purpose. Tracy Lord (Blythe Banner) is going to rewed one George Kittredge (Richard Council), an up-from-the-proles coal company manager. As everyone who has seen the matchless Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant-James Stewart movie knows, the next 24 hours constitute a lifetime for Tracy. She takes a compromising midnight swim in the nude with Journalist Macaulay ("Mike") Connor (Edward Herrmann), sheds her fiance, and is reconciled to her ex-alcoholic, ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Frank Converse...
...three men in Tracy's life fail to establish bold personality profiles. As Kittredge, Council provides more sullen bark than bite, Converse's Dexter Haven is more earnest than insouciant, and Herrmann must have studied Stewart at least as carefully as he did the script...