Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Style will carry a President only so far. The Carter Administration was still marred in some areas by confusion and unprofessionalism; the staff work was sometimes shoddy and key memos poorly prepared. Dozens of top jobs remained unfilled; the Agriculture Department has no deputy secretary, no general counsel and none of its six allotted assistant secretaries. But last week amid a burst of activity, Carter was coming to grips with matters of substance-and with uneven results...
...Poneys were fumbling for a style, but they were doing it in the right city. The center of the rock world was about to shift from San Francisco south to Los Angeles, where the conviction hung in the sulfurous air that rock was power. The idea keeps turning up in Linda's conversation today that the raw energy of rock must make a statement, whether it is Jagger's statement of nihilistic mockery, her own lady-bereft keening, or the songs raging against the war that began to come out of Southern California in the late...
...becomes an overly heavy counterweight to abstract statistics. Her opening and closing chapters raise questions about the societal foundations underlying women's place in the labor fore, and the in-depth vignettes on each occupation bring up points of special concern to each realm of work. But the cinematic style--emotion-laden frames in sequence, too many, often too melodramatic--obscure the real questions: why are many of these women leading unfulfilling lives? Howe's work raises many disturbing questions that she never quite answers...
...SAME TIME, As It Was is not written with the same attention to color and style that Saltonstall and Weeks used in Salty. As such, it reads more like a State Department briefing paper, or perhaps one of H.R. Haldeman's "talking papers" than a memoir or autobiography. For historians of American diplomacy in the '50s and '60s, this kind of detailed reporting will be valuable, but its lack of unifying theme or humorous readability makes As It Was overall a less attractive book than Salty...
...Cunningham first pioneered an idea Dean and her contemporaries take for granted: that dance is an independent structure. Cunningham required his dancers to count an entire dance in their minds and muscles, not to rely on external cues. The con-centration involed is so demanding that a new performance style evolved as its inevitable consequence--the choreographer directed his dancers to present movement rather than project meaning. As a result, Cunningham audiences confront the countenances of dancers intensely concentrating on movement, rather than dramatizing character, onstage. A second Cunningham innovation is the conception of dance as an "amplification of energies...