Word: vamping
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After the speech, a group of five collegestudents vamp on Harkin's themes: when you buy acar, what are you paying for, labor or CEOs?...this country has almost no tariffs right now,basically none... we're not producing anything inthis country... national moratorium onforeclosures... economic conversion...compassionate government... manufacturing base...universal health care... high-speed rail...
...Kirby. The name is a down-home rendering of the French for Presley's nickname, "the King," but that's about the extent of the trouble taken to adjust the facts for fictional purposes. Tender is meant to be a biographical novel, but it reads more like an overextended vamp on a folk hero...
...poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then you're camp." In Postcards she is all of these, and better still she finds an aging woman's tenacious grimace under decades of gamine makeup...
DICK TRACY. Lovely to look at (seven gorgeously orchestrated colors), delightful to hear (three terrific Stephen Sondheim songs), a pleasure to sit through. Warren Beatty's take on the tec is funny but not facetious, and Madonna sizzles as a vamp chanteuse. Pssst! -- this girl could be big in movies...
...CEMETERY CLUB. This Broadway comedy about three Jewish widows who meet every month to visit their husbands' graves is sentimental and sometimes dumb, but also sweet, funny and superbly played by Eileen Heckart as a would-be vamp and Elizabeth Franz as a proper lady seeking a new life...