Word: singings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was never anything small about the feast of entertainment offered either. For a ticket that never got higher than $5, the hall offered its customer not merely a movie but performances by a 75-member symphony orchestra, a resident corps de ballet, visiting vocalists and instrumentalists, and zealous sing-alongs with the booming organ. And, always, the machine-perfect, fail-proof routines of the pert-figured, high-kicking Rockettes. On seasonal holidays there were, in addition, lavishly staged extravaganzas during which the mammoth stage might be transformed into a cathedral, or a racecourse for chariots drawn by live horses...
...William Miller, 52, is proof that nice guys sometimes do finish first. After President Carter last week named him to succeed Arthur Burns as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, about the only negative things that acquaintances could find to tell reporters about him were that he loves to sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely...
...wake of the same aliens who caused the ruckus in Muncie. Our expert finds one detail quite interesting. The inhabitants of a small town in India--believing a visit by the stellar spooks to be a sign from the great one--created a four-note jingle to sing in honor of the other-wordly visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that this tune (now played incessantly on Boston radio stations) is a musical "hello" from the aliens. He convinces his colleagues at an international UFO conference to support a project to send the four-note...
...Sings, The Other Doesn't is more than a bad movie--it is a potentially damaging portrayal of the women's movement. It virtually advertises abortions as fun and easy, something every woman should experience. No operating tables are shown, no struggle for effective legislation is related, and Pomme and Suzanne never run across an old prejudice or moral value that they can't handle. If the going gets tough, they split. They aren't really interested in changing society; all Pomme wants to do is sing the glories of women and pregnancy: "It's good to be a bubble...
...right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that the same phenomenon occurs in the humpback whale who is known to sing "songs" that are up to 30 minutes long, and then to repeat them a little later "phoneme for phoneme." He asks, "Is it possible that the intelligence of Cetaceans is channeled into the equivalent of epic poetry, history and elaborate codes of social interaction...