Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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with him, I would laugh at the visual contrast...
...room as you will see in the great palaces of Europe. Conklin was also responsible for the cunning costumes, which express the personality of the characters much more stylishly than Ribman's autistic dialogue. One tactic for surviving Sweettable is to turn off your mind and float into a visual reverie...
...still for anything longer. He sang and tap-danced competently, no more. From the early 1950s, when his syndicated TV show appeared ten times a week and won two Emmy awards, to the 1980s, when he set box-office records at Radio City Music Hall, Liberace was a visual rather than an acoustic phenomenon. He charted a path followed by the unlikeliest of proteges, from Elvis Presley to Elton John and Boy George: the sex idol as peacock androgyne...
...renovation has eliminated the dead spots and the echo, although the subway trains still announce their passage. The removal of the drapery has revealed the full sweep of the proscenium arch, giving the hall a more vivid visual configuration, but it also reinforces psychologically the impression of acoustical brilliance. Although the cramped old lobby has been transformed into a gracious entrance flanked by twin grand staircases, entering and leaving the hall is more than ever a contact sport...
Images, musical and visual, are the heart of this production; it's like an animated museum of a legendary past. Although it thankfully stays away from the teenage-oriented material of every nostalgia film form American Graffiti to Peggy Sue Got Married, it still treats its adult subjects with a childish joy, playing with baubles of memory like brightly colored toys. One might be left with an unsatisfied desire to know more about the denizens of the Fifties--our parents and teachers--than just their taste in clothing. To be fair, Nite Club confidential never pretends to be more than...