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...young for things American is wistful and sometimes weirdly askew. But it reflects a larger cross-cultural longing. In some ways, America and Japan are interesting commentaries on each other. The Japanese affinity for Americans represents in part the simple attraction of opposites. The Japanese live an intricate and compact life?119 million of them crowded onto islands the size of Montana. No new blood, or little, has entered the Japanese gene pool for 1,200 years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl, an ingathering from...
...music and old, all sound on this concert tour compact and soul heavy, spirited but not demented. Bowie and band locomote through a decade's worth of favorites, from Ziggy Stardust through Young Americans, "Heroes ", and beyond, with an all-pro fervor that is deep into funk and goes very light indeed on the old druggy dolor. Bowie's voice is like pulverized gravel. It can give a strong foundation to a desperate love song like "Heroes," or lead straight and true to the tough core of Fame, with its nervy, insolent last line: "What's your name?" Onstage...
Whereas Company is marred by the aggressive orchestra this time musical director Gerald Moshell keeps his small orchestra at just the right pitch to accompany the singers, who combine clear enunciation with strong lyrical voices. This highly compact show runs at just over two hours and the dialogue stays crisp as lines are delivered without too many complex movements...
Spielberg's segment (based on a 1962 TV episode called Kick the Can) means to demonstrate his familiar compact with the movie audience: "If you believe, I can make you all feel like children." So speaks the endearing Scatman Crothers, presenting the gift of renewed youth to a home full of old folks. Once again Spielberg is cranking up the magic machine that has served him so well. This time the spell does not hold; one can hear only the machinery, purring like a contented windup kitten...
...center opened in 1958 as a small, compact research institute which produced a steady stream of scholarship through the 1960's, and was instrumental in the development of the new field of arms controls. The original nucleus of faculty members included Henry A. Kissinger '50, Edward S. Mason, Thomas C. Schelling, and director Robert R. Bowie; the first Fellows Program had 12 "practitioners...