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...Burnsian style is full blown in both works: slow pacing, reverent interviewees, soothing strings and custardy voice-overs. It may seem harsh to call this sentimental and dull, but something in this pledge-drive-friendly aesthetic belittles the films' intense, contentious subjects. The suffrage movement was ardent and revolutionary; what we get sounds like an ice cream social...
Millennium hopscotches the world in vignettes, making regions characters in a global mini-series (and paying ample attention to non-Western areas). It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it uses to maximum effect. This mix can shock us into seeing the present in the past, as when Isaacs crosscuts modern Italian hipsters and preening Renaissance Florentines. The conventional re-enactments, however, are like a forced march to colonial Williamsburg...
...reach the Pacific Ocean. The familiar Burns techniques are here--actors reading letters, a cast of commentators, panning shots of historical images--but they are supplemented by the spectacular landscapes of the Great Plains, the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. It is a pleasing package, nevertheless marred by the Burnsian sensibility...
Signs of a spreading Burnsian influence in the Carter camp have been multiplying. As some Carter watchers have been telling it, the Chairman, as Burns is known, was a major influence behind the President's apparent swing toward more conservative budget policies. By some accounts, the Federal Reserve chief's arguments had a big role in persuading Carter to withdraw his proposal for an $11.4 billion tax rebate -framed by Liberal Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser. And when Carter invited congressional leaders to a White House breakfast to try to sell his tightfisted fiscal...
...Burnsian consensus reached at the April meeting of the FOMC was that some trimming of the growth of the money supply is necessary; too much money had begun to flood into the economy as it picked up steam in early spring. The group's decision was to push the federal funds rate up a bit, to as much as 5½%. The Federal Reserve's tighter money policy is already showing up in higher short-term interest rates-to which the stock markets are keenly sensitive-as well as in a rise in the prime lending rate that...
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