Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This work seems to suffer acutely from a problem of genre: is it a play? is it an opera? Billed as a "musical tale," it seems neither fish no, fowl nor the best of both worlds. The music, written and performed by Philip Lasser, is elusive and singularly inappropriate in nature; it runs on incessantly, ubiquitously beneath the speech, providing less of a meaningful subtext than a distraction or, at worst, an embarrassment, as the unfortunate singers actors explode into snatches of unsingable, off-key melody. This post-Wagnerian syndrome is if anything aggravated by the nature of the text...
...three Mob executions since Jan. 10. Investigators contend that the murders were sanctioned by four aging Windy City Mafia chieftains as they spent the Christmas season in the warmth of a Palm Springs, Calif., retreat. The four, according to investigators, were Accardo, 79, the longtime Chicago boss, who suffers from cancer and heart trouble; Joseph Aiuppa, 77, the operating chief, who has a bad heart and is rumored to suffer from throat cancer; John (Jackie) Cerone, 70, the Chicago underboss, who has been indicted with Aiuppa for allegedly skimming Las Vegas casino profits; and Joseph ("Joe Nagaul") Ferriola...
...objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue is really a symbolic one, representative of the neglect the farm workers feel they suffer...
Lynch's off-the-wall proposition and Bob Clark's direction are not entirely dissimilar. Both suffer from a glaring lack of sensitivity: Lynch to his eramorata and Clark to his audience. Clark ruins a potentially funny--if somewhat contrived--storyline by attempting to stretch one joke over 45 minutes of air time...
...says--can be dangerous, particularly to people already at risk for hypertension and diabetes. Oddly enough, the distribution of fat on the body seems to influence health. Studies have shown that people who carry their excess fat as a potbelly or "spare tire" are more apt to suffer from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than those who carry the same amount of flab around their hips and thighs. Why this is so remains a mystery...