Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instant replay, split-screen images and closeups have long been known to TV sports fans. Now they are beginning to become familiar to psychiatric patients as well. An increasing number of psychotherapists are supplementing their treatment by using video tape to give patients a good look at themselves. Some enthusiasts are so excited about the results that they are already talking of a major breakthrough in psychiatry...
...experimental city is planned as a totally new town-with the accent on new. Unlike most of the nation's other new communities, it will not be an instant suburb of another city. Instead, MXC will nestle in the wilderness as a self-contained entity, serving as a living laboratory for the most advanced ideas in urban planning, environment and technology. Planners expect that 130,000 jobs could be created in MXC, mainly in research-oriented industries like environmental technology and communications...
...TITLE SONG is instant deception. Harder rock than anything since "Medicated Goo," as well as the first song based completely on Rebop's congas. He's way up in the mix, leaving Hawkins to keep the band in place with fundamental bass drum and snare work. The rhythm section is pure and simple; the emphasis is on drive and pace, rather than distinction in style or riff. Winwood provides the power, emphasizing the drive with fuzz rhythm guitar, mixed way up--rhythm guitar and congas are the two most prominent sounds on the song. That fuzz guitar adds an edge...
...bizarre often drives the play: the audience stays poised to see what new strangeness is in store, because anything can happen. In The Chairs, this finds expression in an oceanic ebb and flow of energy. The actors have to set up chairs at a loud and feverish pitch one instant, and subside into deathly silence and inactivity the next. The varying dynamics of the play as it is written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors are rigorous: they have to carry hundreds of invisible people--not to mention the people in the audience--along this roller coaster...
...Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object was almost extravagantly peaceful...