Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything else but a vehicle for the real stuff...
Nashville doesn't have any "real stuff," and as a result some critics had trouble talking about it. One might call them the cookbook critics--their theory is that the secret's in the ingredients. Just as the studios make movies like salad, adding a sprinkle of "love interest," a dash of "violence," a pinch of "fun," so the critics think of "plot" or "action" or "climax" as separate components to be inserted in a movie at will. "Bad language," for example, is a poor allocation, no matter how it's used...
...Hellman writes in Pentimento. "I believed that I could now make clear that I had meant the first play as a kind of satire. I tried to do that in Another Part of the Forest, but what I thought was funny or outrageous the critics thought straight stuff: what I thought was bite they thought sad, touching or plotty and melodramatic. Perhaps, as one critic said, I blow a stage to pieces without knowing it." The third part of the planned trilogy was never written...
...service: "Please understand that if it were up to me, I would let you in. But the Russians say, 'No Americans,' and the facility was built with their money." In the meantime, a U.S. technician was surveying the clusters of rhombic antennas and generators. "Long-range, multidirectional stuff," he noted. "Real fancy, very efficient by its appearance...
...hope is that higher prices for new gas would trigger enough new drilling to arrest the decline in proven reserves by the 1980s, when other forms of gas, notably illogically named synthetic natural gas (which is manufactured from coal) and imported liquefied natural gas could supplement the real stuff, though at a very high cost. For the U.S., the cold reality is that the era of plentiful low-cost natural gas is ending quite as painfully as did the bygone age of cheap, abundant...