Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true Nixon fashion what he considers to be more controversial information, such as which newspapers the President reads during breakfast: "Oh, one or two. I really cannot say." The gentleman's gentleman has even begun to look like the boss: Manolo's sideburns have fallen to mid-ear level in recent months; his hair has become fuller above the temples, and the greasy kid stuff has disappeared. The reason: Manolo has placed himself in the hands of Nixon's hair stylist, Milton Pitts...
...Theories abound, few of them satisfactory. The fading out of ear-numbing, mind-blowing acid rock, some say, is related to the softening of the youth revolution. Its decline is variously viewed as a symptom of either progress toward harmony and thoughtfulness or a tragic slide from activist rage into a mood of "enlightened apathy." There is also the desire for individual expression on the part of talented rock musicians too long cooped up in their communal palaces of sound. Many of them came to realize that the higher the decibel rate, the less creative subtlety possible for composers...
These and other abundant signs of commercial achievement measure, but do not begin to explain, James Taylor's peculiar hold on the ear and imagination of youthful Americans. A good deal of his success is based on the kind of personal magnetism that has been making baritones and matinee idols rich and famous for generations, a particular masculine presence. Lean and hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female...
...Nixon stance by its very neglect, its lowering of expectations, may have contributed to forcing the black movement both in on itself and outward along new paths. Following the legal civil rights victories of the past two decades, blacks would have struck out in those directions anyway; the deaf ear in Washington simply accelerated their push into the political and economic arena, where they are rapidly learning how to use the system for-and occasionally against-itself. Indeed, the movement today may well be more confident, more pragmatic, more tough-minded and more sophisticated than ever before. "There...
There is not enough dialogue in the film to cover a gravestone; nonetheless the folk chants commemorating the dead fall on the ear like sonnets, the ululations of the women like a biblical plague. Adapted from a sociological study, Ramparts seems to have begun as a propaganda movie. It has succeeded, but not as intended. Its politics have been diverted by the villagers and bleached by the African sun. If this evocative work manages to "sell" anything, it is the idea of Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 28, as a director of fresh and major significance...