Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Mel Mendelson, owner of a meat-packing plant, who has been observing the scene for a quarter of a century: "Miami Beach reminds you of a New York subway." From a more scientific viewpoint, Frank Borman, the former astronaut who is now chairman of Eastern Air Lines, concluded from his company's research that "the Beach is dying as a tourist attraction." Eastern's figures reveal that as recently as 1971, more than four out of ten visitors arriving in Florida headed for the Miami area. Last year the figure was fewer than three out often...
...doesn't really work. Camus's viewpoint is a little too hard to see; as a result, it is largely unconvincing. It is hard to imagine an American audience giving itself up to pure enjoyment of the scenery and the gaiety. Bahia is an idyllic world, where even whores can demand the right to love; it is not a world that reflects our own experience, and it is difficult to take it all seriously. Bahia is gay, joyous, beautiful, but it is not believable. And in the end, it isn't really satisfying, either...
...American media. Reporters should strive for more honesty in stating their degrees of certainty about the "facts" they report in stories; the seven major national media organizations--The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek and the three major television networks--should consciously seek an internal balance of viewpoint among themselves. Most important, Price says, we must search for "some way to break the vicious circle of distrust between government officials and the media...
...this inner circle without an economics background, he is "the keeper of the campaign promises," as another member described him, constantly reminding colleagues of the positions that Carter took before election. Eizenstat rarely raises his voice during discussions of where business is heading, but he injects a strong liberal viewpoint when talk turns to issues like the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill, which the President promised last week to support...
...before long. In this case, that would be a real shame--there's more to this album than the crazed rumblings of an embittered anachronism. There are three cuts, especially, that deserve a careful second listening. They're not only the record's most interesting expressions of Costello's viewpoint--they point up strengths, both lyric and musical, obscured elsewhere...