Word: babeling
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...This is the world's greatest picture from the world's greatest book," says the reigning flack, as he watches 3,500 body-tanned extras toiling with baskets of plastic bricks up the staircases and setbacks of the Tower of Babel on the set south of Rome. "Here," says the associate producer, "you have the first love story, the first sin, the first murder, the first boat and the first skyscraper." "All these fantastic stories," marvels the prime mover of all, Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis, "it would be incredible if it weren't the Bible...
Efficient Cost. Special-effects men are having their finest hour. The top of the Tower of Babel was shot in Egypt, where 4,000 sun-baked Egyptians were hired to play Babylonian extras. One day only 1,500 arrived for work, so armadas of taxicabs had to be sent out through the streets of Cairo to pick up anything that moved on two feet. The bottom of Babel's tower was shot near Rome, where one genius in the makeup department ran around with cans of something called Clean Fly, which he sprayed on pale Italians to turn them...
...capable of 2,500,000 calculations a second. So broad is the variety of computer users that there are more than 1,000 programming "languages"; last week RCA Chairman David Sarnoff urged that the scientists put their minds to devising a standard system to replace the "technological Tower of Babel." That will be difficult if only because computer technology is changing so rapidly. Most important, computers are being brought into the executive suite, are helping to make more and more executive-level decisions...
...Paul VI in a special Sistine Chapel service to several hundred painters, writers, musicians, sculptors and actors, and it marked the first time a Pontiff has tried bridging the century-old chasm between art and the church. Abstract art still disturbed the Pope. "The result is a language of Babel, of confusion," finger-wagged Paul. But the culture-loving Pontiff wanted a change: "We need you. For, as you know, our ministry is that of rendering accessible, comprehensible and also moving, the world of the spirit, of the invisible, of God, of the ineffable. And in this...
...Studio's polyglot performers turn the dim basement room into a Cellar of Babel. Tennessee banjo pickers and American Negro folk singers take their turns with such musicians as a Sudanese oud player and a Japanese painter who sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...