Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puts an increased burden on the storytelling itself. Very soon, if not already, audiences will demand that the effects be supported by characters, plots and situations that they care about. This is why the Star Wars Trilogy has maintained such constant and long-lived popularity. Unlike GGI, the then ground-breaking, now obsolete, special effects did not free the filmmakers from craftily having to introduce, present, disguise and surround the illusions they created. As a result, the battle sequences in Star Wars abound with solid directing, editing and score-writing; indeed they required these skills to make the analog effects...
...scaffolding and stoplights--itself becomes a part of the show. At the halfway point, the cast drums a loud, brilliant, exuberant number against these street artifacts while literally suspended from the scaffolding. And in the show's final, climactic piece, everything from the man-size plastic dustbins on the ground level to the tin trash cans suspended overhead becomes a part of the show, as trash-can lids, hubcaps and more exotic instruments are marched in from offstage...
...this point that One Night Stand begins to fall flat. The relationship between Max and Karen never really gets off the ground. No sufficient reason is given as to why Max would want to jeopardize his marriage, and his attraction to Karen never seems powerful enough to inspire a convincing reevaluation of his life...
...Well, we played with Cake and they're a cool band. But like Ben said, a lot bands we want to play with are on our same level and are just trying to stand their own ground. There's a lot of bands I really like, but I don't know if it would be right to play with them...
...thing my music isn't," she observes, "is arty. When you play on the subway or in the street, you can't decide who your audience will be. Your songs have to appeal to everyone, make complete sense, but be melodic, understandable and not ground down to a certain genre...