Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound industrial policy, the Democratic thinkers hasten to add, would not impose Government's will on business, merely offer assistance. Cooperation is a word frequently heard these days in Democratic think tanks. The model is Japan. In Japan, business, government and even labor all seem to work together for the common good, instead of sparring constantly as they...
...sets abruptly, leaving audience and players in the dark. Henry addresses his troops before battle, and some low-flying aircraft provide martial rumblings. Henry and Katharine share their first kiss, and a police siren serendipitously whoops for joy. Is all the world a stage? Then Manhattan is a bustling sound stage...
...consensus of rumor, backstage gossip and onstage evidence, this is Michael's show all the way. The opening dispels any doubts on that point. In a blitzkrieg of light, sound, lasers and smoke, shambling creatures that resemble Big Bird's pal Mr. Snuffle-Upagus re-enact a short, skewered version of The Sword in the Stone. The young man who yanks the steel out of the rock turns out, of course, to be our Michael, and the lasers reflecting off the blade into the far reaches of the stadium make him look for a moment like a dashboard...
...tour has both needed and suffered from Michael's heft all along. Besides freighting an amount of equipment unprecedented even for a rock extravaganza-375 tons of it in 22 semitrailers, including two outdoor stages and one indoor stage, 64,000 lbs. of sound-and-light equipment, and eleven hydraulic elevators-the Jacksons had to shoulder the weight of Michael's colossal celebrity. That might not, at first, seem like such a burden. It was the monster success of Michael's Thriller album, which seems to have turned into a kind of long-playing Guinness statistic...
There is still a lot of money on the ta ble, but after Kansas City all bets have been settled. That was not summer thunder in the air- over Arrowhead Stadium. It was the unmistakable sound of the Jacksons hitting the jackpot, all to the strains - yes, Michael sings them both -of Billie Jean and Beat...