Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancers was based, not so much on ideas, as on immediate, rhythmic relationships, both among themselves and with the music. The dancers did not work with the swell of the music as mood or emotion, but reached constantly to the beat, as if to get as close to the instant as possible by testing every rhythmic tick, or catching it for a ride. The electronically calibrated music, used in three of the works, bore whiffs of the Maxwell house percolator. And the dancers, though graceful, looked as emotionless as the animated discs in the film announcements for Walter Reade theatres...
...concert is an understandable escape. If there is little safety, at least there is a common bond in numbers. In this mob exists a different spirit from the vein of Sha-na-na nostalgia, but it is of the same genre. Commercialized consumerism can create instant nostalgia, market a product, and sell to those who crave it. There is a record collection that comes on with "Remember the sounds of the Summer '73." We're already nostalgic about the present, a time scale compressed to the point of absurdity. It is humorous, but it carries desperation for those just...
...Rebel Without A Cause. James Dean rose to instant stardom as the troubled teenaged Jim Stark, a young man who has to learn to "choose your own friends; don't let them choose you." Nicholas Ray's talent is evident, but the script has some appalling weaknesses that even Dean's mumbling can't obscure. The film affected an entire generation, not to mention a generation of cinema, and Dean became a cult hero overnight. His talent is both marvelous and overwhelming, and the supporting cast is understated enough not to cramp his style. Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, Sal Mineo...
...Watergate case Richard Nixon's "seventh crisis," as an instant and inevitable cliché would have it? Not likely, when it is recalled that the last great trauma in the President's 1962 bestseller Six Crises was the Nixon-Kennedy campaign of 1960-of which he wrote: "Where an individual has carried on his shoulders the hopes of millions, he then faces his greatest test."* Based on the criteria implicit in the cases of the first six, the updated list might look like this...
Nixon and his chief economic aides have made no secret of their distaste for price controls and their deep desire to chuck them by year's end. But to make Phase IV succeed, the Administration must show a genuine determination to enforce the new regulations. Thus the instant emphasis on granting price exceptions and removing controls as soon as possible bodes ill for the program's success. With the Administration showing so little faith in Phase IV, it can hardly expect the rest of the nation to have confidence that it will work...