Word: distractedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crossing the Charles at Anderson Bridge, Arthur reaches across and taps the top of his fare meter. The display light is burned out. "That's an old meter--they call them one armed bandits. I've seen them jump two bucks at a time. I think there's a loose...
In spring of '79, Waits had commenced work on a record tentatively titled White Spades, but he got distracted, caught up in some other things. "I ended up changing the title to Heart Attack and Vine, and that's what I'm working on now. I'd say the sound...
The reasons cited are familiar to anyone who has wondered about the decline of U.S. education generally. Teachers are inadequate. Children distracted by television are not interested in book learning. And there are the accumulated influences of modern life, ranging from divorce and the decline of the family to lack...
So it goes in a desperate suburban world, where the filling station operator is only too happy to pick up an over used credit card and turn it in for the reward, where an IRS audit can strain a marriage to the breaking point, where a grandfather must move in...
The plot, though serviceable, is not really the point. It is just an excuse for some hard but sympathetic observations of the way many people live now. Director Scheerer may not fully realize that; there is something unemphatic in his handling of material that needs to be sharper. The acting...