Word: urchins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, Sony gave free rein to CBS Records chief Walter Yetnikoff, 56, to build the unit's creative output. "CBS always treated us like a stepchild, a little, dirty urchin," says Yetnikoff, "but Sony gives us respect. The important thing is, they like the artists and the business. They understand it's more important for me to take Bruce Springsteen's call than Norio Ohga...
...waiting for some sign of life in the Bush White House: "Where are all those kids and dogs? Get 'em out here. We gotta have some action." Warning: if kids are used to get a President elected, he'd better keep them around for slow news days. Suggestion: an "urchin mobile," first discovered in China by Richard Nixon in 1972, a van that carries cute kids from camera position to camera position with changes of sweaters, hair ribbons and jump ropes inside...
...also becomes friendly with Huberto Naranjo, a street urchin turned guerrilla fighter who commands vast troops of men dedicated to the overthrow of the government...
...bare stage -- and to grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
...applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...