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...DAVE, EDMUNDS' new album, Twangin', Rockpile backs him up: Lowe on bass, Terry Williams on drums, and Billy Bremner on second guitar. It's his fourth effort with them: Lowe has two, and the group as a unit has one. Twangin' is Edmunds in peak form--crafted, yet vibrant, rollicking yet soulful. Where Lowe's talent lies in witty sarcasm about everything from the Bay City Rollers to man-eating dogs, Edmunds lets his stinging guitar affirm rock and roll, putting polish on classics old and new. He plays in the Elvis Presley mode, but adds musicianship and production techniques...
...eyes, coloring every Black man or woman's skin, ghosts that become, for Black people, a cloak and an identity. Toni Morrison must stare very hard and deep into the brown faces she sees, watching these ghosts so intently that they have become alive themselves and are often more vibrant than the human beings whose lives they influence...
...gore with extreme tameness. His relentless diffidence weakens a potentially powerful story. We watch with a dreamy disinterest as Fate designs it tapestry of despair. BecauseTess' story doesn't possess the shock value it had when Hardy wrote it almost a century ago, the film needs more vibrant and innovative direction to involve an audience. Tess is a cold tragedy...
...could be Robert De Niro's older brother who went into accounting. One brief scene - in which Eva greets her new lover Juan with her arms and a leg sticking out seductively from behind an easy chair, like a Marcel Duchamp construction with moving parts - hints at the vibrant high camp to which Evita Perón might have aspired...
...poor will fare best, Gilder says, in a vibrant economy in which low tax rates spur investment and speed the creation of new jobs. He unabashedly touts a Robin Hood-in-reverse creed: "To help the poor and middle classes, one must cut the tax rates of the rich." Gilder argues that only the rich have enough capital to stimulate rapid economic growth, and only reasonable tax rates can induce them to invest rather than spend their money in unproductive ways...