Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cheap Trills does a lot of those fiddle tunes as well as some uptempo jazz and swing. Their soloists take amazing breaks one after another and play "high voltage stuff at breakneck speed" as someone once said. They'll be there...
Some of the technical questions are answered in a small flyer for sale at the desk, but if you are too cheap or too broke to buy the flyer, you might be hopelessly confused...
...inability to musically activate this trite scenario becomes obvious at the climax, when the characters lapse into speech. If husband and wife had sung these commonplaces of insult and apology, it would have been laughable; their situation doesn't warrant the dignity of music. Even "Island Magic," the cheap illusions of a Technicolor movie, which Bernstein invokes to resolve the couple's muddle (it doesn't deserve to be called dramatic conflict) can't pull off the trick...
...formula for maintaining a healthy relationship is simple. Writers criticize if they must but avoid the "cheap shot" (it's hard to define the term but we all know one when we see it), while the athletes take the bad with the good...
...upper class reformers in the only movement of women given any credence in history books. But what of the effect of the suffragette movement on black women, who could not vote, not only because they were women, but because they were black? What of the Chinese women working as cheap imported labor (under the whip) at railroad sites at that time? How many working class women could exercise the new right of women to vote? These questions are never brought out in history books. As Dolores Barranco Schmidt and Earl Robert Schmidt point out in their essay on "The Invisible...