Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great White Way many great musicals have transcended thin scripts. People don't go to a musical for the story; they want Show Tunes, and that is where Woman of the Year falls shortest of all. Fred Ebb and John Kander, who did Cabaret. Chicago and the film New York, New York (which included Frank Sinatra's new theme song), wrote the lyrics and music, creating an inoffensive score without a single memorable tune. It's standard Broadway muzak, which cries out for a powerful voice--at least--to enliven the proceedings...
...flame. Exactly one month later, Peter Sellers' widow marched down the aisle with her consoler, the eminently eligible British television star and producer, in a quiet ceremony in Theberton, England. Sellers' children professed outrage. "This only proves her love for my father was paper thin," snapped Michael, 26, who, along with Sarah, 23, and Victoria, 16, is contesting Sellers' will, which leaves nearly all of his $9.6 million estate to Frederick, his fourth wife. The unblushing bride bears them no ill will: "I only hope that one day Peter's children can find themselves as happy...
Like the diaphragm, the cap works by preventing sperm from migrating from the vagina to the uterus and then to the fallopian tubes, where conception occurs. The diaphragm is a thin rubber shield held in place against the vaginal wall by the tension of its springy rim. The cap is a thicker, thimble-shaped rubber or plastic cup that fits snugly around the neck of the uterus, the cervix, and is kept in place by suction. Both devices are used with spermicidal cream or jelly...
DIRECTOR Harold Prince, trying to bring some fluidity to the production, relies heavily on the mechanics of an extremely mobile set to permit his cast movement. At best, he creates the seamy atmosphere of a Hogarth woodcut. But his ingenious erector set wears thin, and his staging occasionally seems more suited to a Greenwich Village opera society. Even Prince's chillingly stark Prologue becomes cheapened in retrospect, as the Sweeney leitmotif is repeated ad nauseum. Ultimately imagination turns to calculated effect--blasting whistles, billowing smoke, showering blood--that titillate, but never deeply touch...
...while lying on the floor of their car, testified that there had been no warning shouts. Finally, he developed a strong case that Bowden could not have committed the robbery that led police to stake out his car in the first place. For example, the suspects were tall and thin; Bowden, at 5 ft. 4 in. and 180 Ibs., was neither. He had only one thing in common with the holdup men: he was black. Said O'Donnell in his final argument: "Bigotry pulled those triggers...