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Conventional histories of the late nineteenth century generally miss one man who helped bring about changes in American society far more lasting than those wrought by any politicians or businessmen. The histories tend to name men like President Grover Cleveland, Populist presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan and financier J. P. Morgan as the most influential...
With the artificial respirator of an abrasively amplified mike, she can belt out a song, but not with the earth-moving gusto of the classic belters. She can torch, but not with the heart-wrought intimacy and conviction of a Piaf, a Billie Holiday or her own mother, Judy Garland. As a dancer, she is adroit and nimble but she does not dazzle - though her legs do. As for her acting skills, they ex ist mainly in the eyes of her true and devout believers...
...looking for something to watch tonight, the selection is much better than usual. Channel 2, the PBS station, offers Part 2 of an interesting dramatic series set in the 1880s. The show, entitled Best of Families, will appear regularly for several weeks, tracing the startling transformations wrought upon American society between 1880 and the turn of the century. Everyone in History 1621 should tune in, 9 p.m. on Channel...
...furor continued, Carter seemed pleased by what he had wrought. An aide described him as "very satisfied" with the jolt produced by his press-conference blast. Having been criticized for being too gentlemanly in supporting his energy program, he was suddenly under fire for putting on the 8-oz. gloves-and seemed to relish it. Thursday night, only hours after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door...
...historical themes, 1900 's strongest motifs are visual. Bertolucci organizes the film around the seasons of the year and provides a voluptuous emotional texture wrought from pastoral sun light, blood, mist and excrement. Though much of 1900 has the majesty of Renaissance art, many of its images are erotic or terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti...