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...anyone in Europe and the U.S. of a certain age, this is a familiar tale. Once booming industrial centers were laid low in the 1970s by the one-two punch of recession and increasing competition from Asia. Detroit shed almost 40% of its industrial jobs in the '70s alone. Many cities - rust belt towns in America's east and Midwest in particular - still face the huge challenge of reinvention. But there are lessons to be learned from places that have been through this before and the authors of a new British guide argue that U.S. cities would do well...
...portrait of two brilliant, conflicted men with something to prove: Nixon that he was a statesman, not a crook; Frost that he had the gravitas to bring a big man down. So how does that become a movie - one, moreover, that is essentially a making-of feature about a '70s TV show? Howard knew that to convey the particulars of what must seem like ancient history to younger viewers, he needed to move from the long-shot perspective of a play to the interviews' own visual style: alternating medium shots of Frost with blistering close-ups of Nixon. Thus, what...
...floor beats, hi-hats, vampy singers, and a fair amount of cowbelling, she was surprised to say the least. The disco I was playing is not the capital-D Disco of wedding receptions and campaign theme songs. It’s a dance music made in the early 70s by all-embracing, forward-thinking people, and it’s been overshadowed by the more garish, less nuanced music of the latter part of that decade. Genre, race, class, and sexual orientation had no bearing on what direction these original innovators would take, precisely because they represented the most marginalized...
...later years, Odetta collaborated on a dozen or more albums (dueting with Nanci Griffith, for instance, on Other Voices, Too). She recorded a collection of Christmas spirituals and did tribute albums to Ella Fitzgerald, Leadbelly and blues thrushes of the 1930s. In her 60s and 70s, she still could sing the hide off a traditional number. Evidence: this rendition of "Midnight Special" (see below...
...handed a note reading, "You get the first bullet the minute you stand at the microphone." Black frames the film as a monologue delivered into a tape recorder by Harvey, who's as sure of his impending death as he is of his gay-liberation creed. In the '70s, paranoia was simply common sense; the preceding 10 years had seen the murders of King and Robert Kennedy and assassination attempts on Gerald Ford and George Wallace. The movie is faithful to that grungy time, but it downplays the riots that followed its hero's assassination; Black and Van Sant...