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About his music, Hamlisch is not cautious: "I'm a terrific arranger and a terrific pianist," he says. "I'm a believer in strong melodies. In this sense I'm innovative, because so much music today is unmelodious." Dismissing the old dictum that film music should be unobtrusive, he believes in getting his melodies into the forefront. "If I'm scoring a sad scene, I want my music to take the audience over the emotional brink," he explains. "I want to bring a tear to their eyes...
...undercover policeman, because, they say, whenever a meeting was going well he would disrupt it. It's hard to imagine Collins drawing followers or contributions or for that matter "Fuck Authority" on Inkeles's blackboard in any spring but 1969's. For awhile, he'd challenged Disraeli's dictum that great revolutions aren't lightly begun, but he passed into Strike folklore and then out of sight...
...intuition may account for the compulsive nostalgia that seems to be driving many Americans back into any past that they can contrive to regard as comforting-here the frolicsome joys of World War II. It seems only a matter of time, however, before a corollary to Vonnegut's dictum enforces itself: "Nostalgia is going to get worse and worse . . . " A show like Over Here ought to send audiences screaming out to embrace...
Before his exile, Solzhenitsyn spoke of his "relief and calmness" in the accomplishment of his mission. This he perceives as a memorial to the dead of the archipelago. But his books are also Solzhenitsyn's gift to the living. Mindful of George Orwell's dictum that he "who controls the past controls the future," he has already wrested Soviet history from those bent on obliterating it and restored it to his people. In the future, he may also succeed in quickening the conscience of both the oppressed and the oppressors in his unhappy country. For, as he wrote...
...grand jury investigation, I must thank him for acting on a much neglected moral premise: no system can provide justice (or anything else) automatically There is no substitute for people who care enough to work for what is right. Perhaps Krause personifies Jefferson's dictum. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance...