Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Sweet Charity is no masterpiece. Neil Simon's book is more often predictable than funny, and the second act neither coheres nor makes much sense. Dorothy Fields' lyrics are much too witty to come from the dim characters. Cy Coleman's so-so score provides two rousing standards, which evoke Fosse's cleverest numbers: the sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability...
...there was sweet satisfaction for the long-suffering Domenici last week when the Senate voted 70 to 25 to pass a budget resolution he was instrumental in hammering out. While the plan was less austere than the one Domenici produced with the Budget Committee's ranking Democrat, Lawton Chiles of Florida, it is far more balanced than the President's proposal. The Senate plan calls for increasing military spending to $301 billion--$19 billion less than Reagan requested--while raising revenues (through new taxes or fees) of $13.2 billion, more than twice what the President wants...
...story of Legend was immensely rich and complicated; the film begins with a 168-word crawling preface. Yet it is as simple as a bedtime tale, and may have the same effect: putting the kiddies right to sleep. Lili (Mia Sara) is a fairyland princess, all coquettish glances and sweet mischief. Her beau, Jack o' the Green (Tom Cruise), is a swain of the woodland working class. When Lili touches one of the magic white unicorns--can't have your bucolic fantasy without some unicorns--the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) begins to work his evil alchemy. And the film...
...scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then served sweet- and-sour at a Chinese restaurant in Middle-Earth. "I require the solace of shadows," he purrs to the benighted Lili. "Neath the skin, we are already one." And he leads her into a dance that black magically turns this virgin into Salome, fit for a satyr king. The film has grown...
ADMINISTRATION: Martin J. Gardner, Donald Sweet...