Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vanguard, new wave look of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, cinematographer Ian Baker arbitrarily splices the film every twenty minutes or so in order to mark the passage of time, eschewing the more conventional and smoother dissolving methods. The problem, of course, is that Baker isn't Welles and his product is nothing more than a pretentious, inferior copy of the real thing...
...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...
Explaining what was meant by "harangues," one of the Sidewalk Poets, Jack Powers, mentioned that most public speakers, selling "religion, politics or a product," are a "turnoff to the spoken word...
...many in the audience, the big draw of the event was the appearance of Garrison Keillor. And his performance did not fall short. Keillor read naturally, repeated sections as he saw fit, and, without being condescending, made sure the audience followed along. Ironically enough, however, it was a "product," Keillor's celebrity status and his new book, not pure appreciation of the spoken word that had to be "sold" to attract people to the event...
...clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth at an annual rate of more than 2%, rather than an anemic...