Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production's success is especially remarkable given the substantially flawed material. The two acts are only loosely connected by the curse on the Murgatroyd family: a love triangle that dominates the first act almost completely disappears in the second, despite a token reappearance by two of the characters. Except for a delicious song spoofing a pair of civil servants, the opera lacks much of the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan social satire. Worst of all, the witch's curse, which has plagued the noble Murgatroyds for more than three centuries and the audience for nearly three hours, is dispelled abruptly, leaving...
Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
There are times when Joffe sees himself as "manic, troubled, confused" and isn't sure exactly why Various people along the way have tried to suggest to him that his problems, his continuing confusion and uncertainty, are the result of his early Sha Na Na success and the way that it delayed traditional adolescent insecurities about adapting and conforming, about adjusting and pursuing a career. But Joffe never felt that that analysis rang true...
...developing his argument, he gives explicit encouragement to the pursuit of that bitch-goddess, success. As shown by the Harvard Grant Study, a long term evaluation of the adaptations to life of the "healthiest" white male members of the classes of 1939 to 1944, achieving the bitch-goddess does not necessarily correlate with important indices of growth and maturity...
Minorities are not freely given the chance to define success for themselves, neither within college nor in society at large. Perhaps minority solidarity on college campuses is preparation for future roles in meeting the needs of communities for jobs, better housing, quality education and more effective political participation...