Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday Night show scheduled to be aired this week. Host Simon wanted Hawkins on the show-along with former Partner Art Garfunkel and Singer Phoebe Snow-because "he's got a great sense of humor." After playing ball with Simon for two hours to tape a seven-minute segment for the show, Hawkins had some advice for his pint-size opponent: "Stick to singing and songwriting...
...Depression, dearie," whispers a coyly melancholy Ginger Rogers. That much director Philippe Mora makes starkly clear in his latest film, Brother Can You Spare a Dime? But the vast diversity of the Depression experience for each segment of American society obscures Mora's otherwise successful representation of America in the 1930s; the film becomes a canvas on which he depicts his personal intepretation of the national consciousness during that...
This song leads into a three-minute segment, "Welcome to the Machine", reminiscent of the work of the French composer/musician Pierre Henry. Henry often incorporates "natural sounds" (e.g. the creaking and slamming of a cabin door, or the sound of waves crashing against a sea wall) into his music. These sounds are distorted by means of electronic devices to acheive a series of novel effects. Floyd guitarist Roger Waters uses this same technique in "Welcome to the Machine" to suggest a futuristic machine blaring cacophonosly...
...Helsinki Conference serves as a good illustration. The conference and its attendant issues provoked public discussion by American officials about the "selling-out of the Captive Nations" and an outcry of a large segment of the American press against the European security agreement, and it also provided politicans of all stripes with a ready-made issue, when President Ford refused to receive Solzhenitsyn, but the conference just didn't seem to be of much interest to anybody in Eastern Europe. The newspapers gave it plenty of play--the text of the agreement was even printed in full--but nobody...
...other religion; it was meant to allow for the free development of religious pluralism in America. Hence I affirm that being Jewish in America is as American as being Christian. What is un-American is exclusivism, discrimination, and lack of appreciation for the cultural and religious institutions of any segment of the population of this country...