Word: taming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the choreographers cooperated on all aspects of the piece, Baryshnikov's mark is on the corps de ballet work in the ballroom scene, and he has clearly progressed since the tame groupings in the Nutcracker seven years ago. Prokofiev's waltzes are drenched in melody, yet edged with dark, thrilling shivers, and the choreography exploits their almost crude drama...
...this time too, Hynde had met Ray Davies, the sardonic main spring of the Kinks, and become pregnant. Daughter Natalie, currently on tour with her mother and a nimble au pair, also forced Hynde to "tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England...
...supply-siders underestimated how difficult it would be to bring down the 12.4% inflation level of 1980. To tame prices and restore the badly shaken confidence of the financial community, the Federal Reserve had to slow the growth of the U.S. money supply. Instead of expanding briskly, the economy dipped into a severe recession that lasted from the summer of 1981 through November 1982. As a result, the deficit exploded...
...recovery defused much of the public criticism aimed at Volcker, who had often been accused of bringing on the recession to tame inflation. He stopped receiving two-by-fours in the mail from homebuilders protesting his policies. In a congressional hearing, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania told Volcker that "the only things I can think of that you haven't been blamed for are herpes and giving up the Panama Canal." But the Senator added, "We're lucky to have you as chairman...
Those who found The Day After too tame should watch the films about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors. There were no special effects in those shows...