Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost that Loving Feeling," decided to produce Ike and Tina. "River Deep-Mountain High," found on the album of the same name, was the resulting master-piece. In that song, Tina's voice is carried to soaring crescendos with the addition of heavy echo effects, strings, and vocal back-up. The entire album hears the stamp of Mr. Spector's influence, for better or worse, and sounds quite unlike any other Ike and Tina album. The synthesis of funky soul and extravagant production achieved on this album was probably ahead of its time. The single, "River...
According to Hawthorne's short story The Maypole of Merry Mount, the peal of a psalm from Plymouth would occasionally collide with "the chorus of a jolly catch" from Merry-Mount and echo in a splendid confusion of styles. Suppose a little band of displaced Americans had lived exactly in the middle, in that no man's land between culture and counterculture. Suppose they had listened to that collision of psalm and catch tune for weeks, for months. Would the double echo have ceased to be two competing sounds? Would one new sound have fallen...
...annual budget of $10 million comes from sales of CR (60? on newsstands) and occasional books on consumer topics. Most of the revenue is turned back into more product testing. But this year $3,000,000 will be spent on what Consumers Union, in an uncharacteristic echo of Madison Avenue euphemese, calls "income procurement." That means promotion to sell more copies of the magazine...
...Phyllis Schlafly, in her late forties and the author of A Choice Not an Echo, which sounded the theme for Barry Goldwater's disastrous 1964 campaign, is a Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois. A blunt conservative who advocates a military establishment beyond the wildest dreams of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she also sees her role as that of a "congressional watchdog" over excessive govern mental expenditures...
...minerals and vitamins in cereals, on the grounds that too much of these good things can be harmful to some people. The FDA is backed by the American Dietetic Association, but opposed by the American Medical Association. While the great breakfast-food debate goes on, many parents can echo the tag line of a cartoon in the Arkansas Gazette: "Isn't anything sacred any more...