Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles) show what they can do; in the process they show up the two stars as glum shimmers, with no characters to inhabit and little feeling for the music. But the songs are mere interludes; the movie's gigantic "production number...
...have never been especially enthused by Borg's remarkably unimpassioned demeanor. Although big-time tennis has a pleasant rhythm, it often boils down to two people hitting a little ball back and forth over a net--and, recognizing the intricacies and talent involved, it can bore...
...white banners hanging from the walls and rafters exhort the workers to strive for higher productivity. PRECISE RHYTHM, HIGH TEMPO, EXCELLENT QUALITY, says one. The portraits of outstanding workers, only slightly smaller than the pictures of morose Politburo members that adorn buildings before national holidays, line the factory's central avenue. The plant runs on two shifts from 7:40 in the morning until midnight, but the assembly line workers, whose average age is about 30, seem relaxed. At times they even stand around joking. Despite the ever constant exhortations to increase productivity, the Soviets have an easygoing attitude...
Birth control is another area where the Soviets are lagging. The government's ideal family has three children, but couples are forced to use the unreliable rhythm method or coitus interruptus, with abortion as a backup. According to Dr. Knaus, Soviet men do not like condoms, diaphragms come in only one size, and the pill (which is just beginning to be manufactured within the U.S.S.R.) is regarded with skepticism and fear. Intrauterine devices are popular but in short supply. The result: in 1980 Soviet doctors performed an estimated 16 million abortions. Says Dr. Knaus: "The average woman...
...Berry after his friend Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown, and christened his daughter Tamla after the Motown subsidiary for which Smokey still records. When he was not tending to official responsibilities and keeping business in the family, Smokey also wrote, produced and performed some of the most enduring rhythm and blues ever made...