Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration arranged for TIME'S music editors and a panel of scientific experts, Scheiber and his partner Tom Mowry played music ranging from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to rock and electronic music specially composed for the four-channel medium. The sound quality proved remarkably high, though not as high as equivalent tapes...
...Manhattan and its escort cut gingerly from Resolute into the Barrow Strait, radar operators spotted a blip on their screens. The interloper, probably a rubbernecking Soviet submarine, remained faithful through the passage. Beyond the strait, the Manhattan faced the most dangerous leg of the journey -Viscount Melville Sound and, finally, ice-choked McClure Strait. An elaborate scouting system went into action. A Canadian DC-4 survey plane, with a special ice-scanning dome, surveyed the 1,100-mile passage. Photographs were taken of the route just ahead and dropped to the Manhattan for study. Two helicopters, based on the ship...
...film's deeply split personality. Scriptwriter-Novelist William Goldman (Boys and Girls Together) purportedly spent six years researching his subjects, yet he provides them with neither background nor a sense of their own transitional time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played the kerosene-powered guitar...
True, his timing is not always as good as it is in, say, Reasons of Health, where a character who is as sound and as stupid as a melon is kept in expensive quarantine in Teheran by an Iranian con man posing as a health official. Jacobs is all surface manner, often on the verge of lapsing into mannerism. Sentimental background music swells too resoundingly over some of his wry endings. Rarely touching the deeper implications of his themes, perhaps for fear of losing the rhythm of his routines, he often fails to provide enough serious relief...
FitzGibbon accepts as sound the plebiscites that gave Hitler up to 99% Ja. But if all Germans were guilty, he seems to wonder, why should countless individuals be singled out for punishment? If Eichmann, why not Everyman...