Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Central question to ask is why people liked the film. The producers ofEasy Living launched a massive promotional campaign aimed at affluent, urban consumers, so it's clear who they expected the film to attract. It it plausible, then, to characterize the film as an appeal to white collar escapism? Or does it appeal more to blue collar aspirations? What values represented in the film were shared by its audience? What made this fantasy world so attractive to the movie-going public...
...speaker series designed to attract guest lectures who are advocates of progressive political action...
...traditions and their corresponding contemporary mentalities becomes apparent not in the seminar room, nor in the dining hall or common room. The contrast between the realists and the romantics becomes most evident in the movie theater, where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching Jack Nicholson board a freight...
...Velvet's sound presented Reed in a new light, perhaps disappointing to a few Velvet diehards but generally well-received by critics and fans alike. Thus the formula was simple for all future tours: back up Reed's vocal performance with a tight set of musicians that could attract equal amounts of audience attention when called upon to do so. The remainder of the time their sole obligation would be to keep the audience rocking while providing the perfect complement to Reed's vocal interpretations...
...they want Hanna and the other Byhalia policeman indicted for murder, they also demanded representation of blacks on the town board of aldermen, the county supervisor's board, and the local electric utility; an improved local sewage system; the addition of blacks to the police force; action to attract a doctor to the town; and increased employment opportunities for blacks in local businesses...