Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champagne reception was a champagne shambles. Chaplin had specifically requested that his table not be cordoned off from the crowd, but perhaps he had forgotten about New Yorkers. Flashing their tickets at the ushers, they made a surging subway jam of black ties and decolletage, pressing around the table where Charlie...
...logical progression after Sha Na Na's elaborate parodies of the old greats was for the musicians of the "70s to join forces with their idols of the '50s. It was no surprise, then, when several of the Rolling Stones showed up at a recent Chuck Berry concert to jam with the master...
...movie's importance goes beyond merely presenting us with the visual side of the concert. Just as the concert departed from the conventional rock format of seemingly endless jam sessions to present essentially note for note renditions of the original songs, so too the movie ignores the trends of its two important predecessors. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter employed slick camera techniques, clever editing, split screens, and concentrated as much on the events surrounding the concerts as the music itself. The Concert for Bangladesh, on the other hand, uses the most pedestrian of camera techniques, choosing...
...bigger than a grain of sand. It is turning holography (three-dimensional photography) into an exciting new adjunct of diagnostic medicine, civil engineering and computer technology. It has yielded light-detection devices that can virtually see in the dark, and it offers a promising way to help relieve the jam in cable and radio communications by transmitting messages on beams of light. Yet in terms of everyday impact, optoelectronics has had its greatest visibility in the rapidly proliferating consumer devices that use electronics to display numbers, letters and other changing signals...
...this internal question be settled "by the Chinese themselves on a bilateral basis. The Chinese were generous in their return concessions. Nothing at all was mentioned about America's defense commitments to Taiwan of 1955. That China allows the old treaty to stand bails Nixon out of a jam with the far-Right at home already up in arms over what William F. Buckley has charged in his syndicated column "a staggering capitulation" on the Taiwan question...