Word: witness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to imagine anyone would be pissed about a play's out come after meeting Wasserstein in person and being treated to her sanguine laughter, her quick wit and affable desire to entertain and charm at the same time. Her artistry and personality seem directed toward the same personal, not political...
...wit was famous throughout Leverett House, according to House Master John E. Dowling...
...team--both lyricist and composer--he's likewise a nonpareil. More than the other great Broadway composers, he produces songs that are both detachable and undetachable from the shows they appear in. Detachable because his lyrics are, in their wit and dexterity, satisfyingly autonomous; they appear in anthologies of light verse and books of contemporary poetry. Undetachable because his songs, usually integrated tightly into the plot line, often lose resonance on their own. It's no accident that Sondheim has originated only one tune--Send in the Clowns--that can be sure of raising a roar of recognition when...
Faust is fueled by soaring ballads (Feels Like Home), Newman's characteristic brand of lopsided New Orleans blues (I Gotta Be Your Man), some certifiable rock-'n'-roll earthshakers (The Man), a little gospel, a brush of soul, and an overall acid bath of Newman's corrosive wit. It's music of an ambition and quality not often heard outside the work of Stephen Sondheim (whom Newman reveres), and it is performed on the album with tremendous brio by James Taylor, who sports a no-sweat self-mocking cool as God; Linda Ronstadt as the tremulous, winsome Margaret; Bonnie Raitt...
Berkley's overwrought performance as Nomi is the final insult. The former "Saved By The Bell" actress makes you long for the wit and subtlety of Sharon Stone's crotch-flashing in "Basic Instinct." Berkley's version of the cliched femme fatale is all pants and snarls, without a hint of irony. As for the male characters, they remain locked in even more unsavory cliches: pockmarked pimp, hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold...