Word: unkindly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just 19 years after Barbra Streisand's remake of A Star Is Born opened to unkind reviews, fans of the 1954 original (or, indeed, the 1937 original original) have another reason for dismay. ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Sunset Boulevard) intends to stage his version of the old classic. To the relief of many, however, he will use Harold Arlen's songs from...
...Stratford's little boy doesn't paint a universally pleasant picture: some of Shakespeare's gloomiest assessments of humanity and its condition appear in As You Like It. This play gave us "All the world's a stage..." and "Blow, blow, thou winter wind,/ Thou art not so unkind/ As man's ingratitude." As it turns out, the court's corrupt and indolent; the countryside tiresome and uncouth...
...dear sir, man is an island, and stands alone to face the twists and turns of unkind fortune. The same goes for woman. Would that it were...
...Reagan years were unkind to college students. Cuts in student aid programs made mounting tuition bills even harder to pay. Although this in itself was bad enough, perhaps the unkindest cut of all was not financial...
...score. Only a handful have mined a literary vein as rich as Damon Runyon's wry stories that transmuted thugs into thinkers and louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy all-black revival on Broadway...