Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exception." He met with CBS President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level." The commercials were to be soft-sell, the disk jockeys positively pianissimo, and everything uniform nationwide...
Lights flicker from the OppOsite lOft; In this-room the hEatpipes Just oOugh; The cOuntry-music stAtion plays sOft But there's nOthing, rEally nOthing tO tUrn Off, Just Louise--and her lOver--sO Entwined And these visions--of JohAnna--that cOn--quer mY mind...
...calendar (Sept. 8: "Hallelujah. Training completed") lay crumpled on a night table. A blood-drenched sneaker remained where it had fallen. The upstairs bath was awash with blood. Downstairs, strips of bed sheet, clumsily tied with reef knots and granny knots, lay about the living-room floor, and the soft cushions bore ugly dark stains...
...Dear Bob," the letter began, and went on to express New York Mayor John V. Lindsay's "deep gratitude" toward "one of the city's most venerable, respected, dedicated and effective public servants." The soft soap notwithstanding, Dear Bob was being fired from his powerful job as coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation...
...point of maximum control of his medium. Breaking new ground in color photography, he has filmed Torn Curtain without direct lighting. Instead, he has used reflected light, bounced off a white screen on the set. This reduces the color contrasts, putting much of the film into lush soft-focus, and almost eliminating unnecessary shadows...