Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the cast is equally fine, notably S. Epatha Merkerson as Berniece and Lou Myers as the dissolute uncle Wining Boy, who leads family members in musical interludes that include a haunting, African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...great extent, the long-term fate of the economy is up to the White House and Congress, while the short-term management rests in Alan Greenspan's hands. All three will have to tinker carefully and deliberately with the creaky recovery if they hope to get many more miles from it. The economy may have survived a stock-market crash in '87, but its ability to handle the tight corners and potholes of '89 and '90 cannot be taken for granted...
...first, some studios were wary of including the lines of dialogue. Former chair of NBC Grant A. Tinker, who introduced Winsten to writers and producers, says, "Some took it as though we were slipping some message about Communism...Some creative people took umbrage because of loss of creative control. That's bullshit. Jay has a very reasonable approach. You know he is not selling Communism...
Television people are especially willing to participate in the Project because, "TV gets its lumps for a lot. Except for news...it really does not make contribution beyond entertainment," Tinker says...
...There was a time when TV was somewhat irresponsible. It wasn't that long ago that we were making jokes about drugs. We cleaned up our act. It takes something like this [the Project] to get people interested," Tinker says...