Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back at the White House, Rosalynn Carter spoke in terms that were generally upbeat, but critical of some particulars. "I do not necessarily agree with all of the recommendations," said she. "The ERA is important to me. My only reservation is that some of the more controversial issues have been mistakenly identified with the amendment. And these issues have absolutely no relevance to the ERA." Rosalynn did not specify those issues, though it would be safe to single out abortion and lesbian rights as two of the most prominent. Still, she said, "it was a historic meeting. We demonstrated that...
...faces at The Back Room at The Idler, located at 123 Mt. Auburn St. Friedman sings and plays contemporary acoustic guitar music. Friday and Saturday nights, Spider John Koerner an old friend to the Idler crowd, returns. Koerner, a seasoned performer, plays excellent acoustic guitar in a straightforward, upbeat style and puts on an enjoyable show. Sunday, the Idler presents Elliot and Rosenthal. (No, they are not a '20's murder trial, but aside from that, you're on your own.) Tuesday night, Paul Orsillo sings and plays guitar in a country and western style. Wednesday night, Kirkpatrick and Myers...
...part. Richard Brooks' direction and adaptation 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 to 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 prototypical single woman vainly coping with today's anything-goes morality. The movie consistently entertains, but does little else...
...also the voice, suddenly made famous on radio, that inspired Hollywood to cast Crosby in the feature picture (Paramount's The Big Broadcast) that was to launch the flip side of Bing's career. In the movies as onstage, Crosby seemed always to come on singing happy, upbeat, don't-worry songs that the trouble-weary public loved during the Depression. He scored successes in such movies as Pennies from Heaven and Waikiki Wedding, but it was as the lazy, goodhearted ne'er-do-well in Sing You Sinners, in 1938, that he found the casual...
...explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What's That Rhythm?, a talk-show parody. Each program ends on an upbeat, with excerpts from such masterpieces as Sibelius' Finlandia and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition...