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...admiration but with an insider's cynical expertise. They see on the television screen a flash from their past, a dim, half-remembered moment from their athletic youth. They call that moment into focus at the bar, embellishing it. An argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed, left-right stride of a man who's fallen off too many broncos. He is wearing a goose-down vest, a snap-button shirt, jeans and pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in Connecticut: Game Time | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...laugh at your mail...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Dorm Crew Blues | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Everyone had to laugh. The builders of this joke-cow didn't really care if Columbia figured out a reason for the sacrifice. The rubble was there only to demonstrate that they had managed to have a good time in some mysterious way. And that's all that mattered...

Author: By Susan L. Kelly, | Title: Milking Sacred Cows | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...lights go down in Manhattan's deco dream palace, Radio City Music Hall, and Mr. Showmanship makes his entrance, flying across the huge stage in a cocoon of feathers, enough for a whole flock of purple ostriches. Did we hear someone say "Peter Pansy"? Go on and laugh. He doesn't care; he knows you'll soon be laughing with him. Perhaps by the first-act finale. A gigantic Statue of Liberty mock-up stands in center stage holding a candelabrum. Thirty-six Rockettes perform their automated scissors kick. Skyrockets flare on the back scrim. And then Glitter Beau Peep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberace: The Evangelist of Kitsch | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the drama's unusual set-up prevents this revelation from being very affecting; on a platform, the lovers talk and laugh while two "Commentators" intervene to relate, without emotion, the events of the day. The audience is primarily disoriented by their frequent interruptions...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Between the Lovers | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

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