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...example, the mysticism in the background comes almost accidentally from the developing procedure. But Ron McNeil, in his 1970 "Tinker's Child," extends this interaction of subject matter and technique. By hand wiping his etched plate before printing it, McNeil strengthens the mystical streaks into strong forms that echo the haunting quality of the child's face...
...breakthrough in the research, Verrier said, was the discovery of "echo beats," a pattern of heartbeats which signals imminent cardiac failure. This finding allowed the researchers to induce heart failure in dogs without killing them...
...TRIPLE ECHO finds Glenda Jackson waiting out World War II on a tumbledown farm deep in the English countryside. Her husband is a P.O.W. in Japan, so she takes a lover, a young soldier (Brian Deacon) who so enjoys her company and so dislikes the army that he deserts. To explain his presence to the curious townspeople, and to thwart suspicion in general, Jackson dresses her lover up as her sister and has him doing the chores in drag. He resists at first, but then comes to like it a little, enough to accept a Christmas-dance date with...
...novelty were enough to sustain a movie, The Triple Echo could go far. But novelty is about all it has. Director MIchael Apted is so concerned with making the oddness of the script believable that he never really takes advantage of it. The movie is never weird or funny enough, never frightening or suspenseful. It does not seem especially outlandish either, which is another mistake. Even kinkiness is academic here. Glenda Jackson seems impatient, while Oliver Reed goes about with his cheeks puffed out, as if taking a sobriety test with an imaginary balloon...
...expert would need in the way of equipment to alter tapes would be a recording studio, two to four quality tape recorders, a variety of auxiliary gadgets and perhaps an echo chamber. First he would listen to the tape over and over again until he felt at home with the speech patterns-voice modulation as well as breathing space. When he was satisfied that he knew the voices as well as his own, he would do the easy part first-simply cutting out certain words or sentences with a razor blade and splicing the tapes together. This would probably constitute...