Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Using all the technical resources of the medium, Director Stanley Kubrick has produced a futuristic parable of man's place in the cosmos that is one of the most stunning visual adventures in film history...
...with hikes of 40% and 50% common. Still, 800,000 units, a quarter of the city's dwellings, are listed as substandard. Replacing them would be a task equal to rebuilding two-thirds of blitz-shattered London, and several of the impoverished ghettos are as big as medium-sized cities. Traffic is scarcely better; every day 3,500,000 people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent of transporting every man, woman and child in Connecticut into Bridgeport and out again each day. From the visible evidence, the sanitation strike might still...
...average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed $300." He claimed that styling costs account for "at least $700" of the price of a new auto...
...ELECTRIC lead guitar is to rock-blues music what the violin is to classical--the supreme voice of the medium. Jeff Beck understands very well that a man who masters guitar has tapped an enormous source of energy. Having done so, he relishes in his freedom and glory much as a racing driver thrills to the knowledge that he is in control of a powerful machine, one that can destroy him if it goes out of control...
Relative newcomers are providing the best basics these days and usually at medium prices ranging from $75 to $300. Luba Marks, 45, a former dancer (first with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Paris, later in Broadway musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun), went into the fashion business with her husband nine years ago. In 1965, she showed a collection of pants, and they have been her hallmark ever since. Though Luba, who won a Coty Award for her designs last month, does not pretend that she invented pants, no designer has worked with them more skillfully...