Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pantomiming to a record. This is a convenient ruse known as "lip sync" (lip synchronization) and is used by virtually all rock 'n' rollers when they appear on TV. Records today are so beefed up by electronic gimmickry that most big-beat groups court disaster if they sing with their live voices unelectrified. Pity the poor Beatles. When they appeared on last week's Ed Sullivan Show, one of the very few programs that do not allow hp sync, their cry of Help! was just that-a shallow peeping lost in the din of their electric guitars...
...like it: "When I'm watching my TV, and that man comes on to tell me how white my shirts can be, well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me." The Stones manage to sing with nervous intensity and snigger at the same time...
...bestseller charts, they are the reigning sweethearts of folk rock. Their costumes, faithfully imitated by their followers, are pop art with pockets: Chér in wildly striped bell-bottom slacks, Sonny in shaggy bobcat and possum fur vests. In the face of adult censure, they join hands and sing I Got You, Babe: "They say your hair's too long. But I don't care. With you I can't do wrong." When the manager of a Los Angeles restaurant recently asked them to leave because their appearance disturbed the customers, Sonny rushed home...
...chauffeured limousine. The touring cast of the Beverly Hillbillies cannily commandeers the town's oldest car for its infield entrance. Jim Nabors, trained as an operatic baritone before he took on the title role in Gomer Pyle, cost the gate an estimated 10% by trying to sing classical arias at the Shelby County (Iowa) Fair in July. And Lorne Green's Shakespearean parody of one of his own Bonanza scripts-"That which we call a Hoss by any other name would smell as sweet"-fell prairie-flat at the Illinois State Fair last month...
Gianni (Tognazzi) and Maretta (Riva) are lovers and loving it. They love it so much that they get married and move into his apartment in Rome. "Now we can do anything we want!" exults Maretta. "Sing, kiss...