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...real New Yorkers are superheroes by night, but each seeks to transcend the ordinary by excelling with indomitable spirit. Those rabid Yankee fans, like one of my co-workers at ABC, at once express their individuality and collective identity through their almost-excessive paraphernalia and fanaticism. Even the owner and manager of the local Subway franchise lives a second life. As a day trader, he most likely makes more money and derives more excitement playing the volatile stock market than managing his “sandwich artists...
Bollywood movies, those Indian musical dramas with their unabashed displays of pure feeling, represent something that has been lost in American film [SHOW BUSINESS, July 22]. In the days of silent movies, lovers had to express what they felt in their hearts solely through their eyes and facial expressions. From the 1970s on, a no-acting-please mentality in film has cramped expression of the higher aspects of love. The displays of feeling and sometimes declamatory dramatic style in Indian films may make us squirm and snigger, but maybe we should question our own dysfunction. Perhaps Indian film can inspire...
...Phillips deserves all praise for finding these musicians - including blues guitarist Hare, who in 1960 did indeed let life (or rather death) imitate art by murdering his baby. In the uniquely free-form Sun atmosphere, Sam helped performers express their tangled visions; they would come in with no songs or arrangements prepared but just noodle and canoodle until inspiration struck. Of course, he also should earn a week's detention for dropping the black acts when Presley showed him he could make money with white ones. But, hey, that's show business...
...pumping piano and the pulverized drums. The first instrumental verse starts with a sassy, Jelly Roll Morton-style line, then bangs out another four-time, four-note, four-on-the-floor figure with, this time, four arpeggios; it's how a sex-crazed Tex Avery cartoon wolf would express himself if he could play hot piano. Then the right hand pounds the same four high keys while the left hand describes a familiarly stealthy boogie-woogie figure, creeping up and down the lower register. We're back into the bridge, Jerry Lee's enunciation more forceful, and rampaging through...
...campaign in Afghanistan, it took great pains to emphasize that it was not making war on Islam, and the need for Arab consent may be even greater in this case: the invasion of an Arab nation in the absence of any sense of regional crisis, and with the express purpose of replacing a hostile regime with one more palatable to Washington. And unless the U.S. is ready to commit tens of thousands of troops to long-term occupation in an intensely unfriendly environment, stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq will require not only the consent, but the active cooperation and participation...