Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself. There are so many great moments in this movie. Gene Kelly's wisecracking, Donald O'Connor's unrivaled comic dancing, and some great, great music. Corny? Naw. It's fun; if you've ever pattered through a puddle and whistled the one verse you know from the title tune, you owe it to yourself to see the film again--even if only to learn another verse. A must, with someone you love...
...Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted...
...entered the building, a country band struck up the tune Cotton-Eyed Joe, and the crowd of 1,500 people, mostly well-to-do Texans who had paid $50 each for their bleacher seats, began clapping rhythmically and yelling "whoopee" and "ah ha." When Teng put on a ten-gallon hat, the crowd howled with delight. He took off the hat and waved it cowboy-style over his head. To open the show, Teng and Foreign Minister Huang rode twice around the arena in a stagecoach drawn by two horses. The Vice Premier waved happily to the crowd and returned...
...tradition with ease. But Elton John, performing in concert, sounds as if he's singing in a record-your-voice booth; Janis Joplin, desperate to please, sings blues with the synthetic soul of a Broadway belter; Linda Ronstadt's coy version of a great Jagger-Richards tune might more appropriately be retitled Fumbling Dice. Thoughts of decadence and decline occur; Donna Summer appears. But then Jimmy Cliff shows up, singing The Harder They Come, and the balance is redressed. By the time the show ends, with a flourish from Elvis Costello and a blast from Bruce Springsteen...
...still the generation that first heard the music, that danced to it, changed with it, married to it, and died to it in Viet Nam: a generation that has never outgrown, will never outgrow the music. A group called the Showmen said it best, and most simply, in a tune that Heroes uses as a theme: "It Will Stand...