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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blanchard says his film experience has sharpened his work in jazz composition as well as performance. "Anybody can play a pretty melody," he says, "but in the confines of a movie scene, you only have a few seconds to get to the heart of the matter, to phrase the emotion you want. Jazz helps me take an idea and vary and develop it; film helps me focus my ideas." That kind of thinking can only mean good times for both jazz and movie music. In fact, with Billie riding at No. 6 on the charts, and with all those Blanchard...
...love. Chaval, in a rather ridiculous scene, approaches Catherine, who is attired in white, on the street, and asks where she is going. She responds that she intended to buy a ribbon, but doesn't have sufficient funds. He offers to purchase it for her with the ominous phrase, "Pay me back if you don't sleep with me." In a touch reminiscent of The Scarlet Letter, she then proceeds to adorn her hair with a red ribbon, suffusing with symbolic shame her formerly pristine attire. Although this connection is played up in the movie, the emotional state...
...performers. Brown in particular sings the difficult melodies with clarity and accuracy, but even she has some trouble carrying off the double notes in pitch. Although the singing improves through the course of the performance, all the singers struggle noticeably at one time or another just to finish a phrase...
...their own future. It is their plan that matters now. The A.N.C. will be judged primarily on its handling of the national economy, because if that collapses, political and social reforms have little chance of growing. The A.N.C. will succeed only if it can, in the current township phrase, deliver the goods. If Mandela and his colleagues fail to show they are making progress, the long- ! suffering black majority may turn against them and follow other, more radical leaders who promise more...
...Pulling a Nixon goes to China" is almost a stock phrase in the political culture. It's easy to lose sight of just how important the trip was, both for the course of world affairs and in the American mind. I remember the fascination as the cameras panned across the airport in Peking (as it then was), and Americans peered into a land few of them had seen in a quarter century...