Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...humor. As a coke-carrying member of the sensation generation, for whom "instant gratification takes too long," she is impatient with her wit; too easily she can turn a kind thought against itself. Just as easily, she has turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose. To get a new movie job, Suzanne must agree to live with her mother, who has her own abuse problems. Doris needs a drink the way a crooner needs a mike, though she claims she is no longer an alcoholic. "Now," she says...
...rehearsal session is devoted to a little nifty called Going Away Party, set to Bob Wills' country-and-western songs. As the dancers, who have never performed together before, try to get the dynamics of the piece into their bones, Merle Haggard's voice drawls out Yearning and its songbird over and over. The steps speed up; at one point a square dance veers scarily into a frantic game of musical chairs...
Right now the program is set with the same four pieces each evening, Baryshnikov dancing all performances. Will it stay that way? Don't bet on it. Looking out over a dappled glade that leads down to the river, Morris says, "I like to see people do what they're not expected to do. I like to see how slow things relate to fast things, I like charged-up rhythm. One reason I make up dance concerts is that then I have something to watch that I like." A thousand steps onward...
...impudent impresario who created Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and Doogie Howser, M.D. This time, Bochco has combined song-and-dance numbers with a gritty police drama to create Cop Rock, TV's first musical cop show. The beat goes on in NBC's Hull High, a comedy-drama set in a suburban high school and spiced with MTV-style music interludes, and in the same network's Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which brings rap star Will Smith to prime time as a ghetto teenager who moves in with his ritzy Los Angeles relatives...
...judicial system is so clogged by the volume of claims that desperate judges are trying hundreds of cases at a time. Some critics complain that greedy lawyers are reaping exorbitant fees in the process. As a result, Weinstein has set a limit of 20% on contingency fees allowed lawyers for hardship settlements paid by Manville. Trust officials say they may have to handle as many as 300,000 claims...