Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign style is to give fairly general speeches, then throw the meeting open to specific questions. Carter usually makes a genuine effort to respond adequately and will often ask his questioner if the answer was satisfactory. But he rarely delivers a formal, policy address from a text, and while he has issued a series of brief position papers, he has made little or no effort to lay out his proposed policies in full detail. One reason: he lacks the kind of large professional staff maintained by his opponents from Congress. Still, in his day-to-day campaigning, Carter...
...Chrysler Corp. was the sick man of Detroit's auto industry. The plunge in car sales hit the company so much harder than GM or Ford that there was serious talk of bankruptcy. Chrysler's huge inventories of unsold cars were reduced dramatically by a desperate, carnival-style rebate scheme that was reluctantly picked up by competitors. A furious cost-cutting program resulted in layoffs of 20,000 salaried employees, who joined an army of assembly-line workers already on furlough. Still, the losses mounted, and last summer Lynn Townsend resigned after nine years as chairman. In October...
Floyd relies on his orchestration-expert in its postromantic, pre-Elektra style-for most of his emotional impact. Yet that emotion is expended on shallow comments on the action, rather than on getting inside the characters. Reaching into and revealing heroes and heroines with music is what opera is all about...
Tangling Limbs. Like all Cassavetes' work, Chinese Bookie has a hard surface naturalism, but he has altered his style somewhat. The scenes are clipped, terse, and derive much of their impact from indirection. When two women have a fight in the Crazy Horse, the scene is not carefully choreographed. Cassavetes shows close flashes of tangling limbs, the violent confusion of a true brawl in which it is hard to tell what is going on until one combatant finally tears away from the other. On film, the brawl is like a kinetic abstract...
Major also said that Bennett has a "clean, most classical style, he lost faith in it and went to hacking like the rest of the field Saturday. Not being an experienced hacker, he lost control...