Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone for 77 senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is still well below the level that existed before Reagan fired striking air controllers in 1981 and is using outmoded equipment to track near gridlock in the skies...
...films can fail to appreciate how effectively he uses the scores to reinforce the visuals -- from the Gershwin themes of Manhattan to the Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong ballads of Stardust Memories to the brooding Schubert string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never heard of Woody's films, and one of them, trombonist Jim Robinson, called him Willard.) He hopes one day to devote a whole film...
Even the casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
...Candlestick Park. Not moving the Series away from the Bay Area is the best decision baseball could make. So the Series has to wait a few more days. It should. Moving it to a neutral site may have been a faster and easier way to get back on track, but it would have just been another blow to Bay Area residents...
...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...