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This music sparkles with clean, crisp lines, but doesn't bite. Though Grisman and Rice chose many traditional tunes, they've failed to invest them with a sense of rootedness. The songs do not seem connected to their cultural traditions, be it Appalachian string music, Irish jug band music or African-American blues. Even when they play a great tune, as in the traditional "Wildwood Flower," the solos are surprisingly tame to the point of boredom...
Costle said that the key to continuing the success of the EPA is to "invest in industrial technologies that are more efficient...
...Foster care cannot handle adolescent kids," maintains Murphy. "What residential care provides is consistency." Consistency is a function of duration-of-stay, however, and proponents await a commission report due out at the end of this month to suggest whether Illinois may actually defy the family-first paradigm and invest more in institutions that do what orphanages once did: hold on to children for five, 10, even 15 years...
...David Geffen, the powerful Hollywood figures who recently formed their own entertainment conglomerate. The new company, in a deal indicative of the changing relationships between networks and studios, entered a seven-year contract to produce programming for networks, cable services, syndication and other media; ABC, in turn, will invest $100 million in the TV studio, giving it a 50% share in both financing and profits...
...Beans of Egypt, Maine, adapted by Bill Phillips from the novel by Carolyn Chute, has this advantage over just about any other movie one is likely to encounter these days: it takes marginal American lives seriously. It does not patronize them. It does not invest them with tragic significance. It does not turn them into case studies. The film has a style that might be called sympathetic objectivity. Under Jennifer Warren's clear-eyed direction, it simply, almost uninflectedly recounts what happens to Earlene when she finally crosses the road to share Beal with Roberta. This new life takes...