Word: reichenbach
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...beaches of Florida, where the vacationing young had arrived in force. While the sands thundered to the Big Beat of transistors at full blast, surfers leafed lightly over the waves, and girls in Bermuda-length "cutoffs" or gaudy minishifts strolled languidly down the strand. Mostly, they read: Hans Reichenbach's The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, giant Batman comics, In Cold Blood, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and a strategic paperback titled How to Get Ahead in the Army. For those who could not make the sun scene, there was a new crop of movies to catch...
...clients gave approval on the spot, and construction crews were soon at work on such Palm Beach palaces as Playa Riente, home of Oklahoma Oil King Joshua Cosden, and El Mirasol, where Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury ruled vacationing society. Meanwhile, Addison's brother Wilson and Super-Publicist Harry Reichenbach fleshed out the Mizner principality by adhering to a golden Reichenbach rule: "Get the big snobs and the little snobs will follow...
Love at First Sight. One of Reichenbach's most successful efforts is his musical score; The Marines opens with rock 'n' roll, drowns out roaring sergeants with soaring cellos, beats jungle drums during bayonet drill, concludes with Beethoven's Grand Fugue. That kind of startling contrast has become the trademark of the many-talented, Paris-born moviemaker whose first creative work was collaborating on songs, some of them for Edith Piaf. In 1947 he visited the U.S., fell "crazy in love with that country," stayed on for five years as a consultant to art museums...
...until 1953, when he bought a tiny, wrist-strapped, 16-mm. camera to film the Grand Prix de Paris, did Reichenbach find his calling, and begin to make short documentaries about the U.S. For L'Amérique Insolite he spent 18 months crisscrossing the continent in an effort to capture "the American from birth to death, his extraordinary youth, his passions, his love of violence, his kindness...
...What Reichenbach ended up with was an oddball odyssey including hot-rod races ("tranquilizers for young boys"), Disneyland ("America has thousands of little artificial worlds"), the annual Huntsville Penitentiary Rodeo ("Here hope is never lost"), a Los Angeles striptease school ("Certainly Americans didn't invent the naked woman, but they were the first to have thought of giving her a theoretical formation...