Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voice that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment in the Cuisinart of his ego. It is a measure of the play's richness that some of its sweet essence survives such thoughtless processing...
CHARLOTTE SWEET...
...hall; in America, even fewer have heard anything beyond the comic ditties that used to serve to round out the hour on PBS after episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs. Yet with the passion of theater people for unearthing every oddment of stage history, an off-Broadway team has assembled Charlotte Sweet, an ingratiating pastiche that re-creates typical music hall turns and simultaneously concocts a conventional Victorian melodrama among the members of a particularly nutty touring troupe...
...Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...
...major publisher reports a 400% jump in its teen paperback titles since 1980. Throughout the industry, sales have tripled, bringing a touch of cheer to the financially ailing book trade. Y.A. are even available in lightly spiced series, such as Wildfire (Scholastic) and Sweet Dreams (Bantam), that feature adolescent romances like Saturday Night Date and I've Got a Crush on You. Many heroines in these confections never get to the first kiss. For boys there are thrillers like Your Code Name Is Jonah in Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure series. These are not traditional adventure narratives...