Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lists this winter--it's good, but it's not quite that deep--but I'll be damned if it doesn't have the wittiest opening credit sequence of the year. It's a not-so-subtle allusion to 1950's credits wiz Saul Bass, and the mere echo works wonders to situate the film within a specific time period, genre and tone. You can practically smell the Lucky Strikes. Even if you don't recognize the reference you'll appreciate the handiwork, and John Seale's meticulous cinematography consistently honors the old masters of that time...
...neat visual surprises include a double-decker Golden Gate Bridge. And the key futuristic detail, the robot star himself, is a lot of fun to watch. His movements strike an intriguing balance between fluidity and mechanics, while in the face, Robin Williams the robot is a curious metallic echo of Robin Williams...
Conservatives certainly do not object, as the Crimson staff asserts, to "homosexuals sharing their identity with others." Nor, as Tan and Carbellano outrageously claim, do we "question the validity of [gays'] right to exist." These sorts of groundless attacks echo the slanders of protesters at the Coming Out Dinner, whose posters denounced Ronald Reagan as a "genocidal bigot." There is no place for such puerile theatrics at Harvard...
...issues as suicide and child molestation. There's even a new song titled Trash. In the past, the group's music has been tinged with hip-hop. Issues is virtually all yowling, sludgy rock. In fact, it's almost undifferentiated white noise, as if the band were content to echo the roar of its crowd. This CD has a few intriguing moments of raw energy. Still, I'm waiting for the flush...
...cellos to trumpets, saxophones, and clarinets, and Bennett's seamless mixing produces a sound that's as close to perfect as you could get, especially using the Quad Sound Studios at the basement of Pforzheimer House. While it's true that at times the sound gets a tad echo-ey and the voices are a bit overwhelmed by the instrumentals, overall the quality is virtually professional...