Word: seale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reluctant Seal. Rock 'n' roll still does not exactly have the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. But even the most recalcitrant of parents now say: "Well, some of it's okay . . ." Some of it, in fact, is very good, far better than the adenoidal lamentations of a few years ago. Some of it is still awful, as might be expected in an industry that grinds out more than 300 new records each week. But for the first time rock 'n' roll can boast a host of singers who can actually sing. The music, once limited to four chords...
...possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...
...avoiding the treacherous northern route, which would have taken them to that point where Asia and America nearly touch, the voyagers found the more southerly Aleutian Islands chain. And Siberia's promyshlenniki (freelance explorers) drooled at the thought of the cargo brought back by the crew: fox, seal and otter pelts. Soon these 18th century venture capitalists, some in flimsy river boats that were bound with leather thongs, were spanning the 1,500 sea miles to the Aleutian fingertip and beyond...
...Lyndon Johnson fares worse. At Princeton last week, they stayed after U.N.C.L.E. to watch his civil rights address but spent most of the time groaning in pseudo-sophistication at his "pseudo-folksiness." At the University of Chicago, they didn't even wait. No sooner was the presidential seal on screen than the seats started emptying...
...pack resembles Pull Malt's, except that the Kiss of Death seal is a skull and crossbones and its motto in "A rose by any other name would small an sweet." One pack of Kiss of Deaths (or Kisses of Death) sells for 40 cents...