Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imitating Harry Truman, Ford whistle-stopped by railroad through Michigan over the weekend. But unlike "Give 'Em Hell" Harry, he did not turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
Although considerable finger pointing has gone on, there is no minimizing Ford's responsibility for the White House blahs. As Cheney himself has said on previous occasions: "The President sets the style for this White House. And that's the way it should...
...titled "Inscapes," Gray does succeed in reaching beyond her theme. A duet for two women, the pieces begin with Gray pounding her fist into her palm, Susan Dowling catching one wrist with the other hand. Dowling delicately arrests her gestures, Gray percussively snaps hers. Both work within their own style of moving and yet transcend their individuality too, dancing in unison through the second half of the piece. In contrast, Gray starts off another dance in the series, "Looking to See," with unison movement. In this piece a second twosome doesn't have the chance the performers do in "Tangent...
...stage. The guitarist Keeset-tanamock strums for roughly the middle third of the piece. Huddled down, Black and John Hofstetter prance in circles, teasing one another. Black cuts unexpectedly to the outside of the circle, Hofstetter surprises herwith a flip over his shoulder. Black uses the same loose athletic style Gray called on in sections of "Passing Through" and Soll in bits of "Lunch Break...
...good news is that the happy-talk news fad is waning; many stations are cutting back on their corn. "It's only a style, and styles go out of style," says Sam Zelman, whose ABC station in Washington has recently hired a respected ' network reporter, David Schoumacher, as anchor man. But the bad news is that some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster...