Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp, we set out at convoy speed of 60 m.p.h. to accommodate the slowest vehicle, a bus carrying troops to the "operational area" near the Mozambique border. Two machine gun-mounted Toyota pickups cruised front and rear, while a third rode herd, keeping the cars spaced far enough apart to avoid offering a tempting target. Aboard the radio-equipped trucks were a dozen police in camouflage gear, toting high-powered Belgian automatic rifles. A few also carried Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...starting block as this one has. If Angels starts a programming trend, as most industry sources think it will, very few imitators can expect to gain the same instant acceptance. Much of that was obtained by close attention to programming-sensible scheduling against the competition and sharp promotion. In these areas even his competitors agree that Fred Silverman is a master. Says Mike Dann, former CBS program chief: "He is compulsive about spots and ads. You can add 15 to 20 share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says...
...this marks a sharp reversal in economic thinking. Only last June, Western politicians, led by the Ford Administration, were enthusiastically endorsing moderate growth policies aimed at beating inflation. But only the U.S., Switzerland and West Germany have managed to wrestle down inflation rates. In most other countries, wages have continued rising so rapidly that even the moderate improvement in business that occurred sent prices up sharply too. Many European governments responded with austerity measures aimed at holding down demand. Business quickly slowed, while joblessness remained high-all without making much of a dent in the rate of price increases...
...trouble is that no incident achieves its full measure of comedy or melodrama, just as none of the characters hanging about the car wash are given sharp definition. A film that might have been an interesting curiosity, some thing quite novel on today's movie scene, turns out to be much less engaging in execution than it is as an idea. Car Wash does suggest, though, that there are unsuspected film possibilities in observing closely the daily lives of ordinary black people. Despite the movie's devitalizing casualness, it is a relief to see urban blacks neither...
...second (let alone the twenty-second) time it is done. George Hamlin leads this production, rescuing an inexperienced cast with rigourously detailed direction. One gets the impression that he has told them exactly where every bone and muscle should be at any given moment. Their timing is incredibly sharp. The pacing on the whole is a bit slow, but things will probably pick up as the cast moves into its final weekend...