Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steely Dan's musical versatility emerges on the first cut, "Black Cow." The electric piano, clavinet, sax and synthesizer take charge from the upbeat and become hewn into a cogent sound that becomes...
...part. Richard Brooks' direction and adaption of Judith Rossner's best-selling novel is sufficiently slick to draw crowds to the box office, but the film can be filed as another victim of the typical superficiality of American movies. Sharp witticisms and flashy techniques keep the movie's pace upbeat, while Brooks neglects Dunn's broader significance as a prototypical single woman vainly coping with today's anything-goes morality. The movie consistently entertains, but does little else...
...linksters are hoping to kick off the season on an upbeat note with a strong showing in the Yale Tournament, which is a nexus for talent-laden squads from the entire East coast...
...kind of coverage that the professionals try to resist is glaringly visible in dozens of local TV news shows-sensationalism, indifference to serious news, schlocky personality chatter, on-camera exploitation of people caught in tragic situations, all mixed with relentless upbeat jollity. Such coverage also repels Roone Arledge, who made ABC first in sports coverage and has now been given the assignment to do the same with ABC News. But he is also fascinated. He is not a man to leave ABC a poor third in news ratings...
Suddenly, Dr. Fried and Deborah are toasting each other in a too sweet victory celebration, which is capped by upbeat footage of Deborah and her now cured friend gamboling in the countryside near the hospital. After a good many touching and vivid moments, the film ends not with a bang but a simper...