Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make no mistake about it, the Kremlin is continuing its massive investment in offensive strategic and theater nuclear forces, as well as in conventional land, sea, and air forces that go far beyond any legitimate defense needs. The Soviet military already is beginning deployment of newer and more dangerous weapon systems: the Delta IV missile submarine, the Blackjack supersonic bomber, and the SS-25 mobile ICBM. Even if Gorbachev is sincere about his desire to devote resources spent on the military sector to the civilian economy, he has not been able to control or convince his military...
...parallels between 19th and 20th century imperialism with sly, casually dislocating anachronisms. Accompanied by a rock score, Coke bottles, North American magazines carrying cover stories about Walker's exploits, even a Marine helicopter all turn up at ! the strangest moments. At best one thinks of Brecht's presentational theater, at worst (not often) of Saturday Night Live. At all times one is glad to see the spirit of youthful subversion alive, applied to a sober subject -- and looking bankable to a major studio...
...reviewer in London and New York City in the '50s and early '60s, he demonstrated an unequaled gift for capturing the theatrical moment in language charged with wit, passion and a vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less than his own tumultuously responsive self as the link by which a decaying medium could re-establish its connection with our public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that...
...promptly became Broadway's newest musical hit, with advance sales climbing to $2.5 million, embraces every experience from birth to death, from delirious infatuation to parting regret. Yet to acerbic critics and ardent fans alike -- and Sondheim, at 57, is surely the most controversial major figure in the American theater -- his own dispassionate characterization evokes the distinctive flavor of the work that has brought him five Tonys, a record six New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best musical and a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George...
...schmaltz and charm, one of the keenest analytic minds around. Sondheim was the kind of boy whose favorite school subject is Latin, and he grew into the sort of man who browses through dictionaries for entertainment. His love of concocting puzzles, scavenger hunts and murder-mystery games, legendary in theater circles, inspired the premise and central character of Anthony Shaffer's thriller, Sleuth, and led Sondheim and a longtime friend, Actor Anthony Perkins, to turn out their own Hollywood chiller, The Last of Sheila. Equally methodical for the stage, Sondheim does not simply write songs; he writes scores so intricately...