Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bogus note. But aside from this, this is an unnerving little film, a very fine first feature which does more than simply show promise. The few flaws are annoying but not fatal. Dalen and his crew would be better off in the future not to go for the upbeat ending, but it's tough to blame them--everybody's got bills...
Hilton had an ego as big as his chain, and he kept the vanity press busy printing books praising himself; his folksy upbeat autobiography, Be My Guest, is in every one of the company's 64,000 hotel rooms, right next to the Gideon Bible. He lived regally in a 61-room mansion named Casa Encantata in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, where 19 servants filled his every need, including buying his clothes. Yet Hilton retained an almost childlike wonder at the world around him. He also had some simple tastes, preferring corned beef hash or pork...
...politicized album, Winter in America. The album included such "H2O-G-A-T-E Blues," a saga about you-know-what and "The Bottle," a track about one man's bout with alcoholism. The real verbal delivery came in South Africa to South Carolina which delved deep into the upbeat rhythms and punctuated lyrics that have become Scott-Heron/Jackson's trademark...
While Jonestown may raise questions about upbeat liberal theologies, it also raises a classic problem for orthodox belief, one as old as the Book of Job or as current as next week's list of senseless murders: Why does evil exist at all? If God is benevolent, and if he is all powerful, why does he not prevent evil? If evil exists, so the argument runs, then either God's love or his power must be limited...
Still, the tempo is upbeat and Jeep is looking for new conquests abroad. Says Meyers: "Venezuela is a good market and we're expanding there. Mexico is a small but pregnant market, and Africa is just sitting there-waiting for Jeeps...