Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gutsy production radically improves on its Broadway model: the 1966 and 1986 hit Sweet Charity, dazzlingly restaged for a North American tour by its original creator and re-creator, Bob Fosse. From the first appearance in silhouette of the title character, a taxi dancer who in the face of all experience remains a fool for love, to the ironically identical finale, this version zips along with style, assurance and the ingredient it lacked in its 1986 Broadway reprise, real heart. Whereas Debbie Allen seemed too tough, too much a survivor to elicit audience sympathy when she played Charity on Broadway...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Elizabeth M. Waite, Carrie Ross Welch...
...imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation of one of the most gifted writers of his generation. "He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm," wrote Norman Mailer nearly 30 years ago. The early Southern stories have the delicate tinkle of glasses of iced tea; a touch sweet, perhaps, but clean and cool. "The Headless Hawk" (1946) is set in Manhattan and offers a sketch of the author as he may have seen himself: "He was not so handsome as he supposed, but handsome all the same. For his moderate height he was excellently proportioned; his hair...
...rhythmically incisive, sharply chiseled Mozart currently in favor in the wake of the original-instruments revolution, but a mellower, more reflective interpretation that prizes sonority and melodic beauty. Bass Samuel Ramey was a swaggering antihero, cocky till the end, and Soprano Julia Varady brought a sweet pathos to the obsessive Donna Elvira. Director Michael Hampe's staging was conventional until the climax. When the Commendatore dragged the unrepentant Don to perdition, the Iberian setting vanished to reveal a cosmic firmament, quenching the earthly fires of lust in a metaphysical supernova of destruction. The normally bubbly postlude took place...
...Izvestia, Soviet officials are convinced that citizens are getting around the recent crackdown on vodka by making moonshine at home, with sugar as a prime ingredient. Caught between low supplies and high demands, the Soviet housewife can hardly be blamed if her mood lately has been less than sweet -- especially if she likes to make a mean cocktail as well as a tasty...