Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are answers to these questions, but they take a bit of background and a bit of persuading. Students of economics are led step by step through layers of reasoning until the moment they see the light. Skeptics think that the whole routine is like induction into a religious cult and that free trade is more like an article of religious faith than a sound policy recommendation. These skeptics are wrong, but their skepticism is understandable...
...Theater, where Garland herself once staged a famous comeback. Called Minnelli on Minnelli, Liza's show is a tribute to the movies of her father Vincente, director of such classic Hollywood musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch before (like The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis) and demonstrates that her voice, if not the exuberant, no-holds-barred instrument it once was, can still curl stylishly around numbers...
...brought sophisticated color and sound to cartoons, extended them to feature length and, with Fantasia, boldly merged classical music and abstract images. Those were revolutionary days for animation; more was conceived in those 12 years than in the 60 that followed. Fantasia 2000 may look a bit timid by comparison, but it provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders. When freed from cartoon bondage, the form can soar like a whale...
About reports that she had relapsed into abusing alcohol or drugs, she explains, with only a bit of Hollywood indirection: "If somebody looked at you and [because of medical problems] said, 'You can't ever sing and dance again...' It was depressing. And if you have this disease, you have it. And it is a medical disease. You have to be so careful. It can get you down. But then it's your responsibility to get back...
...parse that one too closely. But let's not completely rule out the sincerity either. "The last thing my father said to me before he died was, 'You haven't scratched the surface yet,'" she recalls. "So hopefully I'm digging a little bit deeper now. With a little more wisdom, knowledge, grace." If it took Dad to make Liza grow up, who are we to argue...