Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 175 members of the Organization for Black Unity left University Hall at 2:30 p.m. yesterday after occupying the building for six hours. The students-all black-left the building to the sound of beating war drums after OBU president Phillip Lee, a third-year Law student, signed an agreement with Archibald Cox, professor of Law and University spokesman...
...vital to the sequence as Lindsay Crouse's chorcography, or the Charlie Mingus jazz piece she and Wakeen Ray-Riv dance to. As the space their bodies move in changes from blue to orange to hot pink, they become silhouettes of motion in a pulsating frame of sound and color; when the frame constricts to two thin streams of light, they move in a separate frenzy against the darkness. The integration is so smooth that "mixed-media" seems the only natural Medium, and we wonder how we ever enjoyed dance by itself...
...wait until Americans are pulverized and bloodied by too much noise? If it is loud and continuous, doctors know, noise irreparably damages the microscopic hair cells that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, thus causing hearing loss. In addition, it almost certainly affects blood pressure, heartbeat, and virtually every bodily function, and may have much to do with emotional ailments as well. Sums up Baron: "It is a form of persecution...
...things can go no farther than Z: the alphabet and the ideological film. Traditionally, political movies tend to be newsreels with strident sound tracks or windy polemics pretending to be conversation. Scenarist Jorge Semprun (La Guerre Est Finie) knows better. So does Director Costa-Gavras (Sleeping Car Murder), who correctly calls Z an "adventure film" against a system...
...actors control the lights, the sound, the props, the set, and the costumes; even these technicalities will vary from night to night as new ideas are formed. Now if you have a silver samovar on stage, the object is so clearly defined that it tends to dominate the actor, and he can only respond to it in a muted, basically cinematic fashion. However, an object chosen to have no meaning in its own sense can mirror the actors reactions toward...