Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state of network news. He is unsettled by the marriage of the comely face and the bottom line. He is disturbed by the new big boys on Media Avenue -- not just in the news, and not just in broadcasting -- who believe that ideas are digestible only in 15-second sound bites, that manners and life-styles are matters of life and death, that pictures tell stories better than words, that personalities sell the product known as infotainment. And if facts give way to factoids, if this month's celebrity gets confused with last month's, hey, that's show...
...value-added tax used in many European countries. The VAT is paid at every point in the production and distribution chain where a product's value has been enhanced. Consumers would pay their share at the retail level. But as sensible as those or other consumption taxes may sound, they are too dicey politically to have much of a chance in Congress...
...what makes him a star. Disguised by day as a shy and unassuming lubrication-equipment mechanic, Carlson is acclaimed by night -- Could we have ; a big hand, folks? -- as Donnie Lovedart! The first few notes of a familiar tune by the Spinners come up on the sound system, and then he's off, moonwalking across stage with his shades down and an arrow ready, singing, or seeming to sing, "Cupid, draw back your bow . . ." Lovedart is an agreeable fake, a master of the command nonperformance, an angel, yes, but also a duke- duke-duke of the lip-sync world...
With its Western setting, dashed dreams and ensuing violence, Gillettemight sound just like another Sam Shepard rip-off. But Hauptman tries to make it clear that he's less interested in the "myth of the West" than in the reality. After all, the play's basic situation--tremendous overcrowding in prisons as well as in 12-hour-shift motels, life-threatening work, and a 10 to 1 male-female ratio--comes straight from real life, circa 1981. The oddness of Gillette's events are due to the oddness of Americans and their American dreams, not ARTesian meta-theatre games...
Diedrich began her two-year stint in the revue working on the technical aspects of the show--operating lights and sound. "I went to see it a couple of times, and told the players I wanted to be a part of it. I started out as a techie, and then began playing parts. I kept getting bigger parts, as I kept learning more of the movie...