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...sort of nakedness they've never experienced before," says Rosenblatt. "What they're expressing is their individual creative power, not just the gloss they've picked up in high school. For some it's really a rugged process, but they're all brought together by it, and we haven't had any problems since the first weeks...
...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...
...long-felt desire on my part about the use of color. As you know, many of the films you see are not color films; they're colored films. There's an excess of color, and they're brilliantly lit, and they have on what they call a Hollywood gloss. In other words, there's a lack of reality about them...
...neutralized by the airlines' hefty 1966 profits, which he preferred to call "productivity." The President explained on TV: "Unit labor costs in the air-transportation industry will continue to decline, thus assuring that this settlement will not contribute to any increase in the prices the public pays." This gloss did not cover the fact that the major airlines have won federal approval for six rate increases over the past decade, and in each case a major factor in getting the raise was rising operating expenses-a big chunk of which is wages. Despite Johnson's assurances...
...note that the "lowlands" seem to be the opposite of "pot's "highlands," and that the song seems already to have acquired some reputation psychedelic roadmap. No doubt they that will know will know. Here below, we can only await the next installment of Time Magazine's running gloss on pop music drug allusions...