Word: tango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such is Chicago's plot. But this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...
...National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...
...takes two to tango," says Vigier. "There is a great deal of friction and misunderstanding between the city and the university...