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DONNY & MARIE (ABC, Friday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.)-Osmond, that is-are not to be accorded even the briefest benefit of the doubt. The family's patented musical style is basically "Gee whiz, kids, I've got a swell idea. Let's put on a show." This is an impulse that should have been dealt with in preadolescence...
...flee the country, Thieu was replaced by his aging, ineffectual Vice President, Tran Van Huong, who in turn gave way after just six days to the only man thought to have a chance of negotiating a ceasefire: Buddhist opposition leader Duong Van ("Big") Minh. His presidential tenure proved the briefest of all and set the stage for the final Communist triumph...
...short-lived "movements" that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
...practice, the commitment has meant that governments, using the tools of Keynesian economics, react to anything but the briefest and shallowest downturn by increasing spending and pumping up the money supply in order to get the economy moving again. The strategy has in its way worked brilliantly: though governments have by no means always achieved full employment, the industrial world has consistently kept jobless rates to levels that would have been considered impossibly low before World War II. But the commitment also means that the industrial world has deliberately thrown away what used to be its chief weapon against inflation...
...three albums is Loudon Wainwright's Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...