Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title of the play is a pun on The Twilight of the Gods, the final opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. The Ring is a sprawling work about gods and mortals deciding the fate of the world. The information the Gold family receives in the play puts them in the same godlike position, just where the current crop of genetic discoveries puts all of us. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these questions, What kind of world do we want? How will we make these decisions? Whom...
Well, for one thing, it's the Clintons' sheer, star-loving promiscuity. Making time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...
...offerings: Valerie Bertinelli as a divorce living in Paris (Cafe Americain); a high-school coach and his family in Texas (Against the Grain); and a rotating series of mystery movies starring such TV veterans as Kenny Rogers, Larry Hagman and (reprising their early 1980s series Hart to Hart) Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers...
Although all said they would miss contact with students, most said they were eagerly awaiting the chance to pursue research interests on hold, in Wagner's case, for as much as a quarter of a century...
...more and more senior, administrative jobs fall your way," said Wagner, who looks forward also to spending more time on the flowers in his yard...