Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRETTY POISON is a little comedy of murders full of some nice surprises: notably excellent performances by Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld and some hard-edged satire on the current climate of violence by young Director Noel Black (31) and Co-Producer Marshal Backlar...
...alarming buildup of U.S.S.R. military force in the Mideast reflects U.S. ineptitude as much as Russian strength. Given our NATO treaty arrangements with Turkey and that nation's stranglehold on Soviet entry to the Mediterranean, it is hard to believe that imaginative U.S. policymakers could not take counteractions (e.g., an American "presence" in the Black Sea) that would give the Russian Bear a severe case of twisted tail...
...years of pretty hard work in Singapore," Lee said. He said he feels safe in leaving his country for two months because there are no personality conflicts in the government, and his colleagues are well qualified to conduct the nation's affairs. "We haven't forgotten how we defeated the Communists, so we're still committed to socialism," he said...
...Birthday" comes through as the outstanding song on the album, fitting into the great "It Won't Be Long"-"Anytime At All"-"Daytripper" tradition with a strong and majestic Harrison guitar line, complemented by shouting hard-rock singing. It is a fertile blend of rhythms featuring a vivid piano (Nicky Hopkins?) answering Harrison's tasteful and beautiful guitar breaks...
...treatment of the song "Why don't we do it in the road?" A song with such a simple structure needs, and is ideally suited for, extensive musical exploration. The Beatles waste this opportunity with pedantic and sluggish guitar work and a generally uninspired musical conception, though Ringo tries hard. As a result the song falls flatter than it might have; particularly so because the shock value of the first line--"Why don't we do it in the road?"--is undercut by the second line which goes "No one will be watching...