Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Frank Doel, Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One has the plucky, soldiering-on English temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence...
Cast president Nick Weir as country singer Willie Everstop and Jon Blackstone as soprano Kiri On-Luggage (whose costume is a show-stopper) are a delightful pair of misfit lovers whose voices carry them through the show's strongest duet...
Pipes, who generally praised the series, reserved his strongest criticism for the portrayal of the U.N., which he said was "in bad taste" and "not very smart." He said it was probably a device to blame the movie's dirty work on the forces of an organization changed beyond recognition--rather than the existing Soviet government. He said, "I think they chickened out at the last moment and decided not to be so nasty to the Russians...
...library's software collection is strongest in IBM-compatible software. Most of the Macintosh programs, such as MacPaint, MacDraw and MacWrite are available in the first-floor computer room. Other programs, such as Jazz and Pagemaker, are available in the library...
...substance are "Big in America," just released as a single on a hamburger-shaped disc, and "Was It You?," which name-drops controversial topics as if in a shopping list. "The bullets and the hatred, was it you?/The famine and the genital disease, was it you?" is the strongest Statement the Stranglers can muster in this song--and on this album...