Word: blackboarding
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...first torturer was a ROTC-Nazi whose sundae-cup scraped across the glass counter, filling me with nails'n'blackboard shudders. "Man, that's a terrible noise," I laughed shakily. A sinister, piggy gleam lit up ROTC-Nazi's eyes. He scraped the cup again. A mistake, an accident, I thought, as my body convulsed...
Things pick up with Dinosaur, a short educational film in which a grade-schooler's show-and tell starts leaping off the blackboard and showing its fangs. A few of his order independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito...
...achievers in the history of show business. Here is Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high and had neither arms nor feet...
...consultant, a communications specialist from the University of the Philippines, presented her one Friday morning with the findings of a voter survey just conducted in the Manila metropolitan area. He delivered a lengthy lecture, complete with columns of figures laboriously drawn on a blackboard. Impatiently, Cory asked him to "just give me the rough estimates of what people think now." His conclusion: voter satisfaction with Marcos, which had plummeted shortly after her husband's assassination, had gradually inched up to the point where 30% were for Marcos, 30% against and a high 40% undecided...
...Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock throbbed through The Blackboard Jungle, rock-'n'-roll hit movies with the force of a party doll at a quilting bee. Each form cheerfully exploited the other; neither was ever quite the same. By the '60s, movies were an indispensable tool for marketing any hot new group. Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night pinned the larkish wit of four Liverpudlians on top of the world; Bob Rafelson's Head (co-written with Jack Nicholson) was a brilliant, bilious suicide note from the Monkees to their die-hard fans. Today rock helps...