Word: moment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a sauna filled with Cool Whip. Coury boasts that he has sold Eric Clapton better than anyone, but Clapton's RSO albums (like the recent Backless) are bleached-out blues for easy listening. Coury's golden ears have helped create a theme song from the new RSO movie Moment by Moment that seems just right for slow dancing in elevators. Consequently, Coury is often on the aesthetic defensive, making heated claims for such slick popsicles as the Bee Gees by stating, "They're having a greater impact on music today than ten Bruce Springsteens! Rita Coolidge sings their songs...
...promises may be impossible to break, such as the San Diego Opera premiere next June of a new opera written for her by Gian Carlo Menotti. Sills has little administrative experience, but she has a sharp, well-organized mind. During the past seven months, she has spent every free moment trailing the City Opera managing director. Says she: "I have learned everything: how subscriptions work, how to read cash-flow statements, what makes the company tick. My head is so full of plans and ideas that I can't wait to get cracking...
...year in which our nose was rubbed in the new reality." Part of the new reality is that inflation is Public Enemy No. 1, that it is persistent and pervasive, and that it has built up such terrifying momentum in the U.S. as to be unstoppable, for the moment, unless the nation reduces the roughly 4%-per-year economic growth rate that it had come to consider normal...
...when she describes the moment that their relationship became serious, one can almost hear a director shout "Cut and print": "It was about three weeks into the picture-the end of the day-I had one more shot, was sitting at the dressing table in the portable dressing room combing my hair. Bogie came in to bid me good night. He was standing behind me-when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive-he was a bit shy-no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches...
...MOMENT BY MOMENT Directed and Written by Jane Wagner...