Word: far-out
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...well just stand up and talk. There are glimpses of bitter earnestness, such as "The hands that are applauding are slippery with sweat/And saliva is falling from their smiles," but the lyrics are set in a muddy context, ill-enunciated. Nevertheless, Ochs is a talented rebel; his instrumentation is far-out; and his songs defy most conventions, including the three-minute rule: some last nearly nine minutes...
...Scala struck a magnificently old-fashioned note at Expo. In this age of realistic music-drama, far-out staging and intellectual musical analysis, La Scala's reaffirmation of the Italian faith in the power of positive vocalizing was both quaint and oddly persuasive. The company may never fully awake from dreams of its own past glory, but the question is, does anyone really want...
Nowhere is this more apparent than at Expo 67, which is plugged almost everywhere into an array of far-out, ear-frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
Given the idea for a far-out Pinteresque horror story, British Writer-Director Peter Collinson soon bores it to death. Tom launches into portentous metaphors about abused alligators who cannot be blamed for devouring men, and ice that is taken for granted until it melts. Dick continually slavers and picks his teeth, as if the viewer needed to be reminded that he is disgusting. In the principal roles, Morgan and Kendall seem paralyzed-presumably less by fear than by the knowledge that they are supposed to be stretching a one-set drama into a feature film. Despite some flashy hall...
...thus loses his sense of wholeness, Esalen President Michael Murphy, 37, a Stanford psychology graduate, also accents emotional release and an awareness of the body. "We have to learn to listen to our bodies if we are ever to enrich and expand our life of feeling," he says. No far-out cultist, Murphy has attracted such top academic psychologists as Harvard's B. F. Skinner and Abraham H. Maslow of Brandeis, who is also president of the American Psychological Association...