Word: muzak
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...bestir ourselves, we ride out to big airports and climb onto big planes that are as amiably de-cultured as Muzak, as white sound. The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway-fast and convenient, but a sort of whispering vacuum. One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail...
...chorus breaks into "Anchored in Jesus," the camera pans over the Homes and Gardens living room set and shows an audience landscaped in suede and polyester. Happy people stare attentively into space as the hymn, a tune of dental office piety alloyed to the metal harmonies of Muzak, bounces off the upholstery. They come to hear Jim's message, "You can make it too," and to have God heal their ills Bakker grasps a sheaf of prayer requests, closes his Teddy bear eyes, and allows a tear to trickle down his cheek: "And tumors and cancers and growths were literally...
...Lost, Found and Lost, premiered two weeks ago, for example, the subject is false sophistication. The music: airport Muzak. Charmaine sugarcoats the strings in one segment as dancers posture wearily in line, shuffling forward slowly. Fond of reconciling opposites, Taylor was struck by the idea in a dentist's office. "I used to ask him to turn off the wallpaper music," he says. "But then I started listening." Banality has never been as vibrant as it is under his direction. In black costumes with veils, designed by Artist Alex Katz, dancers stare into space, scratch, arrange hips and arms...
...catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional moments, but the listener will find his own excitement in the words just as he does when he reads a novel...
...Police remain second only to Abba in international record sales. Abba is an ineffectual, apolitical pop group bordering on muzak. The Jam, the most popular, most political, raw yet delicate, trio in England, will never sell as many albums worldwide as the Police do in America alone. Being on a sales level of Abba shows the kind of "importance" this trio cares about, and makes all the more repugnant Ghosts' French song, its song that murmurs. "When you've made your secret journey, you will be a holy man" and its whole slick psuedo-euro-disco flavor. I hope they...