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...dance experience. So say its devotees. The less enchanted flee its aural and visual din as from Chinese water torture. No matter. In thousands of mirrored, strobe-lighted discotheques around the U.S., the beautiful people, and some not so beautiful, dance the night and morning away to a loud, seamless stream of glossily recorded rhythm-and-blues songs. Disco has become not only an energetic way to play the mating game but also one of the hottest subindustries in the popular-entertainment field. In terms of the hit singles that can now be made, the stereo and quad equipment that...
Conspiracy, conspiracy, all is conspiracy, it creeps in this petty pace, Aah. But there's more, a one-man conspiracy, in fact, devoted only to the propagation of "seamless" prose, effortless to read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...
REBELS AND REDCOATS by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer. 639 pages. Mentor Books. $2.50. This is the one book to have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution...
...private discovery, in each film, of a revolutionary jump in theme or technique, the unexpected tapping of a mother-lode. In Tango, she hits upon the bleak, angry use of explicit sex; in Shampoo, the expansion of the conventional romantic triangle into a romantic pentagon; and in Nashville, the seamless fusion of stylization and a documentary feel. She jumps up and down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change, she tugs at our sleeves and blurts out "look at that...
This is understandable. Soaps were originally intended to be nothing more than subliminal salesmen. Back in 1933, when their first successful soap, Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins, was aired in Chicago, Procter & Gamble's commercials were skillfully buried in the plot. Writers prided themselves on a seamless blend of message and drama. Irna Phillips, the seminal soap writer who dominated the genre for 40 years, even thought she should forgo her credit to enhance the shows' realism. It was Phillips who anchored the soap to the family and peopled it with professionals. The youngest of an Iowa grocer...