Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down. The song: Byrne's Love Goes to a Building on Fire. Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Bland, who assisted Cocks with the story, interviewed the musician-director several times in New York City. Bland says her initial fears about Byrne's daunting reserve were dissolved by the singer's dry wit. In Texas, Houston Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury attempted to hunt down the offbeat characters who played themselves in True Stories, including a man with dancing goldfish...
Musically Phantom is at once more sophisticated and less hummably memorable than most of Lloyd Webber's shows. There is no song to compare with Memory in Cats. Instead there are sequences that verge on opera, the most ambitious being a quasi-Mozartian septet. Unfortunately, the wit and scholarship of his tunes are nowhere echoed in Hart's lyrics, which oscillate between the banal and the impenetrable...
...foxy or a weasel, or tantalizing bits of both? Peggy Sue, while tamping down the actress's smoldering Wasp sexuality, challenges her to play two characters and moods at once. She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling. Turner, 32, cannot pass for a teenager, but that makes sense. The young Peggy Sue is "not herself"; she is older and on the way to being wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With...
...exhibition is an exploration of the role of art as merchandise and merchandise as art. Although the sheer peculiarty of the pieces can be daunting, the humor and wit apparent throughout makes it accessible to even those who cannot quite understand why basketballs should be placed in fishtanks, and why admission should be charged to see them...
...semiprivate lives. Tennessee Williams was once described as the most famous playwright in the world; he remarked ruefully that he would rather be known as the best. In his final years Williams' talent faded, but his persona, a blend of alcoholic misbehavior, grandiose overstatement, poetic sensitivity and terminally naughty wit, raged on. To his indignation and amusement, the notoriety transcended the art. Last year brought two scandal- tinged biographies of the playwright, who died in 1983. Last week saw the arrival of a far more affectionate event, Confessions of a Nightingale, an ingratiatingly salty impersonation of Williams the raconteur...