Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accelerating waltz of death takes place against a gilded backdrop of a country villa, with the late summer afternoon plink and plonk of tennis matches offstage, and a snowbound resort hotel in the Dolomites. Mark Lamos, in his auspicious debut season as artistic director of the Hartford Stage Company, has boldly chosen to set his stage so sparely that some of the claustrophobic density of the drama is diluted. But he has distanced his characters from each other in their most intimate encounters so that what playgoers feel most acutely is the frosty chill around their dead souls...
...tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin has made a laff-a-minute movie that will offend nobody - except the comic's most ardent fans, who will buy tickets and then yell...
...line. About halfway through the second act plot-lines begin to dissolve into a haze of anticipation; the audience gets restless waiting for the show's payoff. You forget about which actor played what part; they all don the same costumes, line up downstage, and dance. They kick, tap, waltz, jump, charleston--in Serfs Up! they even roll over and kick their feet in the air. This year's kick-line has excitement, surprises, and laughs, and even if the rest of the show--or the people next to you remarking "Excellent!" at every pun--have left you cold...
...concertizing in Europe now, and top orchestras are signing him up well into the '80s. He remains an artist-in-residence at Harvard, where his wife Jill, 27, teaches German. Last fall they played host at an old-fashioned waltz party in Leverett House. Yo-Yo spent the evening sawing away at Strauss in the student orchestra...
...Cornhusker running back I. M. Hipp, the rusher with the self-sobriquet? He was replaced by Jarvis Redwine, who churned up 1119 yds. on the ground on a mere 156 attempts. The Husker defense is also tenacious, second in fewest points permitted (8.5 per game). Nebraska in a waltz...