Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie says that devilish forces plague the world that can pick on the powerless and corrupt them unawares. The world is a conspiracy of sinister unknowns; it is out of joint, gone haywire, batty. The primacy of the exorcism plants confusion and doubt everywhere. People are slaughtercalves of the powerful and the powerful cannot be identified. Nothing can be known for sure, nothing can be taken on faith, for the devil travels in disguise. It's life as hallucination...
Back at the pre-trial press conference, Kunstler was still speaking, and rumors were floating around the room that Jane Fonda or Marlon Brando was going to appear that night at an AIM rally, when someone told me to pick up Carol Means...
...costly machines. Martin Gardner tells of one computer specialist who has a special panic button under his desk: whenever a supervisor comes into the room, the specialist can wipe the display screen clean; later, after the supervisor has left, the computer can reach into its memory and pick up the game exactly where it left off. Nor are Americans or Britons the only ones addicted. Gardner has gotten inquiries about Life from as far off as Moscow, New Delhi and Tokyo...
...most doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people didn't often get him confused with I forget what other (redneck) star who has a similar name. He led into his version of Elvis by telling how Elvis came up one day in a pick-up truck from Tupaloo and said "I wanna make a record," and now, he said, even Charlie Pride got to say MR. Elvis...
...simplest and best way would be by having reviewers actually see a production. No, I don't mean walk to a theater, pick up their tickets, gaze at their programs, and wait for the curtain to go up. I mean see a production: see it from its earliest stages and stay with it through opening night. At Harvard a hodge-podge of theatrical groups exists, and yet the actual phases of production display a remarkable similarity across the board. If a critic wants to write truly knowledgeable reviews, that critic must begin with the institutional structures that fund theater...