Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream -a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with grace...
...mountain of material was no laugh-in for Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, or for Researcher Pat Gordon, or for Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum. "By the time we worked our way through 6,600 gags," says Kennedy, "we were all punch-line drunk...
...Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy, tumbling pell-mell from the opening straight through the commercials till the NBC peacock turns tail. Often the first-time viewer can hardly believe the proceedings. Silly punch lines fly like birdshot. Childish name games produce outrageous amalgams of sound...
Then there is the story of the church congregation that installs a computerized organ, which plays by punch card and robs the organist of his job. Man gets even with machine by feeding the organ a card punched with all the hymns at once. The result is a deafening rattle that all but shakes the church to ruins...
Still, McNamara cannot suppress the virtue or vice of his efficiency altogether. He is too coldly crisp when he ticks off his punch-card proofs-one, two, three-that the U.S. possesses "assured-destruction forces." He seems most himself when speaking of the Department of Defense as the "greatest single management complex in history." Nothing gives him more evident satisfaction than having pruned logistics expenses by $14 billion in five years through his "planning-programming-budgeting system." In the end, his standard is efficiency, and his integrity lies in remaining loyal...