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...equal time. Goodman combines flights of fancy with earthy images and expressions -- this must be the first operatic libretto in history to employ the word asshole and the Yiddish meshugaas. Yet, as in Marilyn Klinghoffer's homey pieta, Goodman can soar. "I have only a short time," the widow sings after learning of her husband's death. "What can part us while I live? I grieve as a pregnant woman grieves for the unseen long-imagined...
...critics. Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately needs to refurbish his credentials as a peacemaker. In December he could not even go to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize because of all his troubles at home. After troops from the Ministry of Interior slaughtered unarmed Lithuanians last month, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, who won the prize in 1975, said her late husband's name should be stricken from any list of laureates that included Gorbachev...
Allan Gurganus' popular 1989 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is an exuberant comic novel narrated by a Southern nonagenarian. Dixie whistles through the stories Gurganus has collected for White People, although the theme of the Lost Cause is rearranged for misplaced lives. The attitudes and manners of Gurganus' characters are small-town first and Confederate second -- even third. Similarly, the author's narrators are perceptive misfits who just happen to be gay. "I've got an extra tenderness. It's not legal," is the laconic observation of one homosexual who is attracted to a pornography fan. In the story...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- those legendary names are as synonymous with sophistication as a jet-black tuxedo, the snow-white swirl of an evening gown, a Ritz cracker . . . A Ritz cracker? According to Astaire's widow, a subsidiary of Nabisco Brands hoped to create just such a connection when it released a million packages of its familiar Ritz snack crackers decorated with dancers in formal dress. Though the faces seem airbrushed, Mrs. Astaire and the very much living Ginger Rogers see an uncanny resemblance to a photo of the famed Hollywood hoofers from the 1935 hit film...
Demi Moore had the best role of 1990, if you multiply intensity of character by box-office impact. As the grieving widow in Ghost, Moore grounded the preposterous plot -- she gets a last chance to make love with her lost love -- and gave it resonance. She has shone in romantic comedy (about last night . . .) and Brat Pack frippery (St. Elmo's Fire). She always seems wired; nerves on edge, talent on display...