In 1977 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the world urged itself to provide safe water and sanitation for all by the end of the 1980s.
Why is it that, over the years, that crazed film calmly urges itself forward as maybe Hitch's most entertaining picture?
The work began very much in Sibelius's territory, with the violas in repeating figures over a long, slow melodic line that began in the furthest bass and urged itself upward.
It's possible, of course, that the specific Force rubbing its eyes and urging itself to glug down a glass of orange juice is the Sith side of said metaphysical phenomenon.
As angsty as that might occasionally sound, the best moments – such as Goes Black – on their brisk and bracing debut album Eighteen Hours Of Static, serve as a form of auto-encouragement, a mantra that sees the band urging itself to seize the moment before it's too late.
The alien learns to speak English by repeating what Gertie says as she watches Sesame Street and, at Elliott's urging, dubs itself "E.T" He reads a comic strip where Buck Rogers, stranded, calls for help by building a makeshift communication device and is inspired to try it himself.
But, as any angler knows, there are pitfalls that leave the fly-fisher convinced that, whatever they said in the tackle shop, the line was programmed to wrap itself around foliage, and the hook was bewitched with an urge to embed itself in branches.
The gambling urge has expressed itself in myriad ways over the centuries.
"Rain Dance" is filled with a quiet anger that erupts a few times too many from the urge to overexplain itself.
