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...Screwed Up does have a few clever scenes: during one in particular a worker finally makes love to his reluctant bride when, in the midst of his hot pursuit, a television falls and she has to thrust her arms defenselessly behind her head to keep the set from smashing. Even this bit may upset some, and the over-all tenor of the film is probably exemplified better by a bizarre "dance" of beef carcasses in a slaughter house, done to an operatic score. The entire image suggests Wertmuller's perverse opinion of her characters, and it certainly shows the possibilities...
...Saturday found ABC's "NCAA College Football Today" thrust in the way. The pre-game show (chock full of lucrative sponsor money) dictated appearances by the Harvard and UMass bands, basically for "their background noise effects" Staeckel says...
...Party" culled out of the lyricists' work songs from the deserving famous to those mysteriously vanished into the oubliette of public memory. For the most part, Comden and Green avoid songs made unsingably immortal by the particular stars for whom they were written, choosing instead those in which the thrust lies in the verbal wit, poetics, and/or drama. The variegated chain of musical excerpts didn't always Ring Bells for the audience, but if there wasn't applause at the first line, there infallibly was at the last; the interplay of words, the subtly expressive gesture, the sheer virtuosity...
...dams would also have destroyed a national treasure-geologists believe that the river was formed at least 100 million years ago and is perhaps older than the Nile. Certainly the New was already flowing when the movement of the continental plates thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East...
These are not isolated examples. According to Economist Albert Niemi of the University of Georgia, between 1950 and 1975, the rate of economic expansion in the South averaged 4.4% annually, v. 3.4% for the U.S. as a whole. The main thrust at first came from an increase in manufacturing. Since 1970, however, service industries, such as banking, real estate and retail trade, have been the fastest growing. They now provide the region with 54% of its gross product, up from...