Word: yesteryears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final scenes in Nicky's nightclub, wherein J.C. Wolfgang Murad gives an exuberant performance as Nicky, a slick and spangled nightclub owner. Nicky sports Dean hair and the ivories with the flamboyance of Liberace; he's funny to us, but a heart-breaker to the trio from yesteryear. There's a great scene where Fanny (Esme Howard), loosened up after a dip in a jacuzzi, abandons her corsets for a slinky cocktail gown and trips the light fantastic in Nicky's arms, to the tune of "Sophisticated Lady...
...show were it not for the noticeably younger crowd. It's all too easy to slip into the cynical attitude that sneers "Who are all these drunk and stoned idiots and why are they ruining my band?" The fact of the matter is that at the smaller shows of yesteryear the idiot-factor was probably the same--proportionally there were probably just as many, but now it's 50% of 12,000 instead of 50% of 1,200. Furthermore, these shows are such as baseball games: some people are caught up in the penant races and details like batting averages...
...conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity can be hilarious. Of the proprietor of Umbertos Clam House in New York's Little Italy, he writes, "Matthew Ianniello has been lost to Mulberry Street and on long-term lease to the federal prison system since 1986, and where are the scungilli of yesteryear...
...century ago, the original version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel played across the street from their original Oklahoma! To most devotees of musical theater, that era seems like heaven. It is obligatory among the ardent to deride today's Broadway blockbusters as vastly inferior to the hits of yesteryear and to cry out, If only they made 'em like they used to. To me, the Broadway opening last week of a revival of Carousel prompts the thought: Thank God they don't. I'd far rather see Miss Saigon for a fifth time, or Les Miserables for a ninth...
...role and Clinton's stewardship. Every land and age suspects that the present generation fails to live up to achievements of the past, so it was probably inevitable that people today would be wondering what happened to the Churchills and Roosevelts and De Gaulles, the Adenauers and Nehrus of yesteryear. Yet the present discontent goes beyond simple nostalgia. A terrible form of gridlock has seized the most prominent nations, from old democracies like the U.S. to the newest, most notably Russia...