Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different kind of fantasy she's offering, a dream of acquisition and her next song, "Explain It," never goes beyond that same surface of acquiring a cosmopolitan experience; all it says is that it's hare to explain to old friends "About the people and places you're learnin...
...with them, yes, I think the first one to go could vitally affect the national security of the United States," he insisted. He also warned against a "new isolationism" among Americans. "We are counseled to withdraw from the world and go it alone," he said. "I have heard that song before. I am not going to dance...
...fears nothing, including being bad, and he has often been. He is bad occasionally here, but it does not matter, finally. His unceasing visual imagination gives the movie an exhilarating boldness, a rush of real excitement. Tommy stirs a memory of a lyric from an old Jerry Lee Lewis song: it shakes your nerves and it rattles your brain...
...must be clear by now, Russell is hardly interested in traditional narrative film making. He is not concerned with the usual standards of good taste either, except to mock and outrage them. His biographies of artists (Song of Summer, The Music Lovers, Savage Messiah) display a sumptuously cavalier disregard for facts. It is fantasy that matters to Russell, fantasy most often on a highly charged, even colossal order. In comparison with such fever dreams as The Devils, Tommy is fairly restrained stuff, including sequences that are among the best work Russell has ever done...
Popularized in a folk song made famous by Leadbelly, the once mighty Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific has sold fewer tickets in recent years. In 1974 it lost $23 million, largely as the result of higher payrolls and a 200% increase in fuel costs. It has tried to merge with the prosperous Union Pacific and has borrowed from its own employees. With much justice, it has lambasted...