Word: vixen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as operatic adaptations of his own works. It is the theater that informs Sendak's illustrations for E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker (Crown; $19.95). This is not the customary sugarplum rendition. As the artist points out in his introduction, the Christmastime ballet was based on a version...
...engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left in them...
Movies and pay cable may brandish their R-rated license, but none of the saltier four-letter words has yet passed the lips of a prime-time hero. No sitcom vixen has bared so much as a nipple. In the new shows one can detect a struggling within the mass-media straitjacket of language and sex. Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam...
...opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen and say, "It's a hit... It's a delight . . . It's Supersequel...
...joined the cast of the off-Broadway comedy Geniuses. Morgan steps into the role of a leggy, not-so-dumb blond up for a nude walk-on in a grossly expensive epic war film. Fairchild is working for scale ($195.80 a week) to break out of the blitz of vixen parts that Hollywood has offered since her bitchy role on television's Flamingo Road. "All they want you to do is run around in pants and a halter top," says the actress, who wears mostly that in Geniuses. "But it's theater," she argues...