Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Hot Wax is a B-movie masquerading as an A-movie. The amount of hype which has swelled up around this basically insignificant flick far outdistances the film's actual merit. Because it fictionalizes and defuses the larger social issues of the Golden Age of Rock and Roll, it loses all pretense of commenting upon them. It is in the end a flawed bit of light entertainment...
...civil service [March 6] will only bring back the spoils system in a new form. Instead of employees and managers doing their jobs, they will be busy polishing their superiors' apples. This will be necessary because even today the federal employee knows that under the mask of "merit promotion" lies the current of being blacklisted or being labeled a rabble-rouser for doing his job or for asking that his rights be defended in adverse actions...
...MANY RESPECTS, the character of Moorehouse embodies the spirit of U.S.A. Moorehouse skips into the play with enormous idealism that decreases in direct proportion to his rising fortune. His success, too, is typically American--based less on merit than on chance and a talent for the hard-sell con-job. And when he dies at the end of the play--a lonely middle-aged man who is more a victim of The Success Story than its hero-prosperous pre-Depression America goes down with him. Stephen Toope's Moorehouse lacks the strength to carry this broad, demanding part. He takes...
...turn stems from his belief that his parents neglected him. Dean's brother, Blaine (Paul LeMat) too often whines his good intentions, when he plays the hero with a mission to exorcise "garbage" from the airwaves. His girlfriend Pam (Candy Clark) also pouts and gestures too conventionally to merit serious attention as a lonely, depressed women who resorts to lurid sexuality through...
...problem is that this exhuberance belies the great merit of de Kooning's earlier work, its structure. As Waldman suggests in her catalogue essay, his paintings have moved from expressionism to a kind of abstract, though physically intrusive, impressionism. De Kooning's East Hampton subjects are classic impressionist ones-the nude in the landscape, the jostle of marine reflections, the movement and flicker of small painterly units that correspond to the "feel" of light and wind...