Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their four-cylinder engines and the beep of their horns are, at least to Brazilian ears, disappointingly meek. As a result, manufacturers of install-it-yourself kits do a booming business in noisemakers. The beetles' mewling toot is replaced by full-throated klaxons that belt out bars of hard-rock music or soar into the oscillating wail of European ambulances. The VW's short-stroke engine remains untouched, but its exhaust is channeled through complicated "extractors" or straight pipe "resonators" that make the humble bug sound like a snarling Ferrari or thundering Offenhauser. A less expensive gimmick...
...author is Welsh Dramatist Alun Owen, best known in the States as scenarist of the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. His males of the species are Paul Scofield, Michael Caine and Sean Connery-each, in his own way, a predator starring in his own segment of the triple bill. Their prey, and the source of the drama's continuity, is Anna Calder-Marshall, an actress formidable enough at 21 to hold the stage opposite such intimidating costars. Sir Laurence Olivier is the narrator-host, providing bridges between the parts of Owen's "modern morality...
...beautiful and unusual churches, but they have mostly remained hidden from the eyes of foreigners. Many of them are outside the big cities to which travelers from abroad were restricted during the long period of Stalinism and the Iron Curtain. Now, however, with Moscow actively courting tourists and their hard currencies, the officially atheistic Communists are not only allowing access to the churches but have actually begun promoting them. The effort signals no change in Communism's general hostility to religion. Few of the churches are used for worship. They are considered primarily cultural assets and historical links...
...Dylan has said more than once, it is all music to him. Why should he be impaled forever on the revolutionary edge of his early songs, even if his attacks on the "masters of war" and the "hard rain" of atomic fallout did help make him a myth in the first place? Now 28, happily married and the father of four, he seems to want to relax and write new songs about innocent pleasures and the delights of love...
...burst on the scene with Chain Gang, a bestselling record album of songs from the Georgia prison farms. Before long, he had scores of imitators around the country, and became a nightclub fixture-casually hunched over his guitar, a burning cigarette tucked behind one ear-singing his favorites, Hard-Time Blues, John Henry and One Meat Ball...