Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From the description it seemed like a pretty important class, because it covers all of Chinese literature up to the 13th century. It's basic, basic stuff," Joseph says...
...done their homework. It's a jungle out there, full of Thundercats and Sectaurs, Pound Puppies and Glo Worms, GoBots and Transformers--in short, no place for the innocent. What could be more embarrassing than to have the old folks, however well intentioned, come home with the wrong stuff! Remember what happened when you sent them shopping for video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least three hours in front of the tube on a Saturday morning. If they balk, tell them that you're appearing...
...didn't realize I did all that stuff." The speaker is Fred Astaire, and the stuff is five decades of dazzling solos and duets. Astaire Dancing by John Mueller (Knopf; 440 pages; $45) gives those performances a step-by-step analysis tinctured with autobiography: "What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers?" the star asks his agent in 1934. "I will not have it." There is no substitute for seeing the fabulous originals, but this fond retrospective is an invaluable guidebook to the heights of Hollywood musicals. "I always need a lot of convincing about...
Pretty gruesome stuff, but none of it's in the play. Most of the performance takes place after Creon discovers that it was Antigone, his son's fiance, who buried the body of Polynices. Now he must decide how to punish her. He chooses the death penalty. Bad move, as the seer Tiresias tells Creon, because decreeing the death penalty gets one prematurely sent to to Hades. Acting like a god isn't advisable in Greek drama, and in the end Creon pays for it. His son and wife both commit suicide...
...Sire) by the Replacements: This is the first major-label outing for the group that holds the world record for playing the most consecutive concerts without stopping to sober up. It sounds like the boys laid off the hard stuff when they made this disc, and their new-found and short-lived temperance allows them to write excellent songs which use Paul Westerberg's off-key voice to its fullest potential. But the Replacements still know how to have fun: as of recent live gigs, guitarist Bob Stinson has been playing encores nude. Help support these guys' habit...