Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maid in The Betsy destroyed any illusions I might have entertained about artistic integrity. But the opposite situation--watching a former TV sit-com starlet metamorphose into a first-rate actress--amazed me. Expecting "Gidget Goes to Harlan County," I was surprised, impressed and moved by Sally (Flying Nun) Field's performance in Martin Ritt's new film, Norma Rae. She delivers a powerful shaded performance as Southern woman who slowly learns to value herself. Playing a sassy, kicked-around mill worker, Field brings an almost autobiographical intensity to the role. Her aging starlet cuteness suddenly works--like Field herself...
With these two assumptions. Bok seems to maintain an artificial separation of theory and practice. Not only must academic pursuit of knowledge be protected from the field of application, but also, our precious opiate, freedom of opinion and speech "as individuals" (Bok's emphasis), must be protected from the possibility that it might really influence policy...
...ways to cope with the lean years of the late '60s and the rampant commercialism of the '70s music scene. A very few were lucky enough to retain some following without compromising their musical ideals. Many were forced to resort to a) "crossing over" to the lucrative popular music field; b) giving up on music and starving as recluses; or c) simply dying young. Jaki Byard represents a growing number of jazz figures who have averted both personal and artistic disaster by "taking it easy" and weathering this hyper decade as music educators and occasional low-key local performers...
...barely audible. His band is topnotch--it includes accomplished jazz players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of hypnotic repetition. The band is worth hearing; Hancock was a vanguard in the field of instrumental funk, and he continues to play it better than anyone else. It's a shame that a jazz festival can't be a forum for these exciting musicians to play jazz...
Harvard finished 26th overall in the field of 56, with a score of 52. The hosting University of Nevada-Reno won with...