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Many musicians are skeptical of the practice as well. "I've been trying to get on radio my whole life," complains country singer Hal Ketchum. "This whole idea brings us one step closer to the infomercial and limits the opportunity of a great song to break through. It puts us on the same plane as the Thighmaster and the Ginsu knife." Nor will it ever substitute for the real emotional connection between a song and a fan, which was once what hits were all about...
Only a few days before the conference, Japan's Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto stepped down because of his failure to right Japan's flagging economy, adding urgency to the conference's mission, said organizer Hal Scott, Nomura professor of international financial systems at the Law School...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...
LOVABLE RUSSIA The Girl from Petrovka (1974; 3) is a detente-era movie: Russian ballerina Goldie Hawn and American journalist Hal Holbrook find romance...
...which Judge Hal Holbrook correctly responds (later on), "The law? We are the law." OK, so this movie, which was made in 1983 but belongs with the conscience-heavy movies of the late 1970's, paints with some pretty broad strokes. And it's plenty dated, given that you don't hear much of the vile-criminal-gets-off-on-technicality outrage anymore. Has it stopped happening? CP doesn't know...