Word: givin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray running shoes with SPIELBERG stamped on the heels, the Mogul of Magic looks just old enough to be the classmate-coach at a college touch-football scrimmage. He has time for everyone, with a few jokes in between: "TV stands for Tender Vittles. That's what we're givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard Donner: "Steven is over your shoulder the whole time. He always bows to you because you're the director, but he's got so many good ideas that you want to grab every...
...pickin' up bad vibrations./ Watt's givin' me palpitations./ Gee whillikers, what a sensation." Such adulterated lyrics, until last week, would have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario...
...drama that most key crises in Frances' life happen offstage or that so much time is spent with peripheral characters about whom one could not care less. The language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John Lee Beatty, whose delightfully real open...
...stroll around the exhibition turns up nothing that is not representational, nothing whose style or execution departs any considerable distance from the work of Frederic Remington or Charles M. Russell, the great turn-of-the-century cowboy artist. Bill Nebeker's small bronze, Givin' the Boys a Show, is a rousing halloo for Remington and the past, a bucking horse with all four legs stiff and off the ground, and a rider waving his hat high. Lovell's Cooling the Big 50 is a powerful charcoal drawing showing a plainsman pouring water on the barrel...