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There is evidence, besides those missives to the White House, that Reagan's plea for voluntarism struck a national chord. John H. Filer, chairman of the National Alliance of Business, notes that 100 corporations immediately joined the N.A.B.'s first major fund-raising drive to explore ways of reducing chronic unemployment, and that top executives of 65 life insurance firms gathered two weeks ago to discuss possible corporate solutions to social problems. In Denver, six coalitions of volunteers have quietly formed to seek ways of helping people hurt by the budget cuts...
Before Reaganomics, the phrase "tax deductible" struck a chord in the hearts (and wallets) of upper-income-bracket Americans. It encouraged them to depart with sizable--and non-taxable--chunks of their assets (and thereby do their part to benefit humanity) since the only other option was to donate many of their taxable dollars to Uncle Sam. Things are different now. The new tax laws make it less attractive for wealthy (and some not-so-wealthy) people to give their money away. They might as well hold onto it, since the federal government isn't taking so much in taxes...
...length, The Deer Hunter moved audiences with its sheer emotional power. The movie got all its force from an amazing cast that included Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken, Cimino, though, was a talented, but unimaginative, amateur: it was obvious in every frame. Yet the movie "touched a chord." While the socially conscious called it narrow-minded and racist--declaiming it as a disgusting, reactionary lie--most critics drooled over it. One critic, in her delirium, even hailed it as "the most honest and political film about Vietnam to date." The movie glorified the common man, it told...
...Movie hole, the music as hyper-energized, as fractious and scrappy as the country itself. It was a smashing, reverberating disc that some of us thought would go through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn't about arrested development? Of course the songs on Get Happy!! didn't "breathe"--they were choked with carbon monoxide and tears of boredom, frustration, rage. Elvis was a ferret trapped in a septic tank...He got his rocks off that time...
Dullness had struck a chord, as home truths occasionally do, but at the Café Babar they needed new material. One of the TV networks got hold of Troise, who, improvising with some desperation, said that the club was going to create a Pantheon of Dull Heroes in-here he reached into his skull at random for the name of a small town-Carroll, Iowa...