Word: stings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Catherine finds a perfect match for her new persona in Edgar Linton (John Vaughan), whose rousing Wham! number is an early highlight of the production. Heathcliff (Michael Allio), too, leaves Wuthering Heights and finds the stage, transforming himself from an introspective Sting to the raucous Billy Idol...
...music takes over, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Sting and Madonna help to steal the show. However, the sets don't match the fullness of their music. While some of Keshishian's visual innovations are fun, too many of the numbers are performed against the starkness of a white backdrop...
...ordinarily a state of controlled disaster. But Wuthering Heights is no ordinary show. Subtitled "A Pop Myth," the setting and costumes are an amalgam of Victorian Gothic and MTV Modernism, and almost all the dialogue has been replaced by lip-synching to pop songs by the likes of Sting and Kate Bush. Keshishian has transformed Catherine, Heathcliff, and Linton from English nobility to pop stars, and added supporting characters like an agent (Nicholas C. Bienstock '88) and a washed up singer (Mona A. Khalil...
...evening began with a lavish, four-hour variety show, complete with glittery set, tuxedoed host and a parade of guest stars. Singer Charles Aznavour cut a ribbon to mark the occasion, and Rudolf Nureyev, Sting and ABC Newsman Peter Jennings were among the celebrities who sent greetings from abroad. Then it was on to regular programming: an onslaught of game shows, movies and weekly series, interrupted regularly by -- mon Dieu! -- commercials...
...companies are waging a more active--and clandestine--war against drugs. GM, for example, has used private undercover agents supervised by the police to make some 200 arrests at its plants within the past 18 months. In the sting operation at the Wentzville plant, the company was able to hire two young former narcotics agents unobtrusively when it added a second shift. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, they mingled easily with the assembly-line % workers. During a six-month period they bought everything from cocaine to LSD from the plant's alleged pushers. Says Dr. Robert Wiencek...