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Although all this sounds exceptionally unexciting, the noises grow on you very quickly. Side two, entitled "There Whale Trip" (get it?), was recorded too close to the ocean's surface so there is a constant rush of water in the background. "After a few moments of listening." the blurb on the jacket says, "you will learn to hear much as a whale probably does, ignoring the background noises and focusing on the whale songs." And once again, the blurb is right. There you are, thinking as a whale does, splashing along just under the surface. You may soon drive your...

Author: By Deboratt B. Johnson, | Title: Whalesongs Beneath the Surface | 12/15/1970 | See Source »

What did the Manhattan moguls of prime-time television do with the new season? To hear them talk, they discovered America. Blurb writers who could not spell "relevant" collected severance. Faster than a speeding memo, the West Coast got the word that the medium must have a message: entertainment TV could be cool no more but must be aflame, or at least perspiring, with social consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: Perspiring with Relevance | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Before the conference the film's co-directors passed out a publicity blurb on the new film. Nea?ly tucked in the middle of the second column were some "That's show biz" sentences...

Author: By Dziga Vertov, | Title: Revolution... at 16 Frames Per Second | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

Lipset goes on to become a central figure in Kelman's intellectual pilgrimage, calling Kelman to ask advice and giving evidence to support Kelman's theories. It is no huge surprise when he appears on Kelman's back cover to blurb the book as "the best discussion of conflict in the university that has come from undergraduate ranks...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Youth Push Comes To Shove | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

...says, in a blurb at the beginning of the script, that it's absolutely necessary that at least one white man be in the audience for every performance. He should be greeted, if the audience is otherwise black, with a ceremony that includes keeping a white spotlight on him throughout the play. What does this mean to you in terms of the actorfaudience relationship that he wants to develop...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

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