Word: muzakal
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...brown, more affable than he had been in ages, Johnson strolled serenely among the gaily covered tables spread out on the thick Bermuda and St. Augustine grass in front of the ranch house, chatting, sniffing the air, shaking hands, sitting to gobble up a hefty plate of barbecue himself. Muzak wafted with the river breeze through the live oaks, and news men sipped the local Pearl beer and soft drinks...
This esoteric image doesn't simply mean that WHRB plays no "top 40" records. It means that there is no "Muzak"--sound track and other light music--and that there is nothing "slicked over, or glossed over, to sell." You won't hear Baez, Seeger>, or Peter, Paul and Mary very often, if at all, on WHRB, says Randy Webb '67, head of News, Sports, and Public Affairs at the station. The station doesn't want to give time to what he calls "little white boys playing Negro music." Following the image also means that commercials "with the Kingston Trio...
...baggage-claim room at the Boston terminal, Rubinstein perked an ear to the oozy wash of Muzak and began to shuffle across the floor with an imaginary partner. When a leggy young blonde entered, he shot an appraising eye at her. "Hmm, not bad," he murmured. "Shall I ask her to dance? No, she's too serious." And on he waltzed...
...authenticity, there are occasional film clips from a 1944 cameraman who was infinitely more skillful than the one used last year. The clips serve to point out how much wiser it would have been to make Paris in documentary form--for television. The soundtrack is perhaps second only to Muzak in its exasperating qualities. There is, in short, absolutely nothing favorable one can say about this movie except that it is, in its own way, monumental. It goes beyond (or below) mediocrity to achieve a really first-rate bad movie status; in fact it probably will become the classic example...
...creative maestros, of course, don't just fuss around with combs and brushes. In their hands, the simplest hairdo is attended by pomp (goldplated shampoo basins, crystal chandeliers and reclining chairs) and circumstances (perfumed air, Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just...