Word: vitalness
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...made shorts (typically 10 minutes) in which stars from Broadway, radio and nightclubs performed and, as best they could, acted in a dramatic setting. Back then these films--the equivalent of short stories, but with songs--were fillers. Today they're thrillers, precious documents of American music at a vital crossroads...
...Alive, Wyclef samples the Bee Gees, while in Gunpowder, he makes a powerful plea against violence. He even manages a skillful hip-hop version of Guantanamera. Like the Fugees' cover of Killing Me Softly, Guantanamera refashions an old song that is almost too familiar and makes it contemporary and vital. Altogether, the variety and reach of the album are extraordinary...
...anyone watching this movie for only the plot will be gravely disappointed, perhaps even bored: Altman feels for the audience intelligent enough to accept the vital added layers of atmosphere that allow one to imagine the rest of the city not shown on screen. Many scenes start from images reflected in mirrors, as if to remind us that at any given time we're voyeurs just happening to see part of the movie's world...
Waiting For Reinforcements MOSCOW: Hope nobody up there has claustrophobia. Russian officials now say vital repairs will be postponed, probably until a fresh crew arrives at Mir next month. But that mission's up in the air too now that the French have gotten cold feet about sending one of their own to the ramshackle space station. The Russians are worried about more than their image problem: if the French pull out, they'll be taking the money they were going to pay the Russians to conduct experiments aboard Mir. For the moment, things have settled down in orbit. With...
MOSCOW: In a nearly catastrophic accident, Mir spun wildly out of control today after a crew member accidentally disconnected a vital cable, sending the crew scurrying into the Soyuz escape capsule just in case. The blunder, which cut all power to the station's electricity, orientation, life support and communications systems, occurred while the crew was preparing to fix the station's power system, which was damaged after Mir collided with a cargo ship in June. Once the plug was pulled, the station began to spin chaotically, turning away from the sun and draining its already low energy supply. Crew...