Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think there's a parallel in my career and Clint's. We both have a particular audience that is loyal to us no matter what the critics say. With Clint, they want him to rip the bad guy's face off. With me, they want me to say those Don Rickles lines to people in authority?the bank clerk who won't cash your check, the traffic cop. And it even goes further, all the way up the lines of authority-even up to the President...
Such verbal snapshots form the documentation for Croce's broader, harder judgments, particularly on fads that have parasitically grown with the popularity of ballet. "Reviewing should function like a Food and Drug Administration," she notes, "even if that function is largely futile." What she calls "pop ballet" is a particular target: "Whole repertories (the Stuttgart Ballet) or parts of repertories (the Jeffrey, the Ailey) devoted to slick approximations of the higher article." In an essay called "Selling It," she has very harsh words for the American Ballet Theater, which she accuses of merchandising stars in shoddy productions while neglecting...
Unfortunately, the only message that comes back is a jumbled series of numbers that doesn't impress anyone much. But then someone notices that the numbers represent, in fact, a particular latitude and longitude--Devil's Tower, Wyoming no less. the U.S. government then assumes this will be the site for our first inter-galactic rendezvous. The area is sealed off, and the government disseminates the false report that a train carrying toxic gases had derailed and that, consequently, the area must be evacuated...
...sees fit. The most important 30 of these outfits have combined operating expenses of $2.9 billion a year. The older agencies?including the Interstate Commerce Commission (founded in 1887), the Federal Trade Commission (1914), the Food and Drug Administration (1931), the Civil Aeronautics Board (1938)?impose limitations on particular industries. The newer agencies?the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), OSHA (1970), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972)?issue orders to institutions across the board. Their potential for change, and for damage, is far greater than their more circumscribed predecessors. Says Kristol: "This creates...
...could a simple country girl do all this and inspire clods, skeptics and a King-to-be with a blind, unswerving faith? Shaw is of no particular help. He has various characters say at various times: "There's something about the girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must give the play a luminous soul. In the disastrous revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, Lynn Redgrave proves woefully incapable of that. She has the inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window. Her metallic high-pitched voice...