Word: sung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video becomes less compelling, however, when addressing Leland's death from AIDS. While Leland indeed might have sung Ethel Merman's hits from "Gypsy" at his death bed, it is frustrating to see yet another media portrayal of a gay man as a show-tune singing, camp-obsessed queen. It is hard to feel any connection to Leland, since Braderman rarely shows the substance and humanity behind the stereotype. Only when she shows the viewer a photograph of her friend, could I feel any attachment...
...unchanging set for Look Back in Anger is a bare and squalid apartment, and designer Zach Sung utilizes his space will. He manages to convey a sense of depressing poverty yet entertain the eye. Angry news headlines pasted over the bed (such as "Trust No One" and "Expect To Be Disappointed") and ashtrays full of cigarette butts make the place look lived-in, while a perfectly dreadful late "50s color scheme renders the ugly interpersonal relations in the play all the uglier. And little touches like vinyl-covered kitchen chairs and a screen behind which Jimmy can be seen playing...
...interviews, South Korean intelligence personnel always accompany the defectors, and there is no way to check the accuracy of their stories. Some tales do not even ring true. Last year army Lieut. Kim Young Seon told debriefers that he knew of a coup attempt against Kim Il Sung and a nuclear accident that had claimed hundreds of lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily...
...Seoul, suggests that Kim Jong Il "is asking for the world, because he has seen how highly we value his nuclear program." Other experts speculate that Pyongyang's intransigence reflects the growing strength of hard-liners, or that Kang is simply stalling until the succession to Kim Il Sung is settled. They note that the younger Kim has still not been formally named President or party chief. Jimmy Carter, who is pressing to return to Pyongyang to arrange a summit between North and South Korea, is holding off until Kim's ascendancy is assured. That could come mid-month...
...common fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern...