Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignition, nothing that TV says or does can re-create the waves of sound that actually buffet the ears, chest and gut of the spectator. The slowness of lift-off contrasts incredibly with the acceleration into flight. The head goes back, hands are raised to block out the sun, tears of relief and perhaps pride fill the eye. The sense of brute power boring an escape hole through the atmosphere is heightened by a sudden realization that one is being left behind. The earth itself seems to be dropping away as fast as the wingless rocket is accomplishing the completely...
Nixon's primary objectives are to sound out the mood of his hosts on the future of their region, while at the same time reassuring them that the U.S. has no intention of abandoning Asia altogether. A preview of his trip...
...luck with films, he has scored 21 features (Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt), three TV serials (including Mission: Impossible, with its pulsating, wide-open jazz theme) and half a dozen TV specials. Almost all the scores are good, and almost all are different in style and sound...
...Leonard Rosenman, 44 (Fantastic Voyage); Dave Grusin, 35 (Winning); Jerry Goldsmith, 40 (Planet of the Apes); Quincy Jones, 36 (In the Heat of the Night). They use jazz, pop and rock as freely as the latest serial and electronic techniques. Like Henry Mancini, who started the trend toward mod sound in the late '50s, they know when to support the plot if the characters are of secondary importance, and vice versa. Schifrin has a deft jazz touch that only Mancini and Jones can match, although his personal leaning is toward Latinesque blues. Schifrin's version of the blues...
...many rock fans, nothing beats a good weekend festival of sound. Out in the open, with a dozen or so singers and bands to groove with, the living is easy. "Everybody is smiling and offering you food and laughing," explains one hip ticket buyer. "It's a really groovy thing when it's going right-kind of like the way you'd like the world...