Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roads are opened monthly; highway drives that would have been considered suicidal two years ago can now be made as a matter of course. Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya and is now a Rand Corp. consultant, recently returned to Viet Nam to sound out the situation for President Nixon. He told the President last week, says a White House official, "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there...
Henze: Three Cantatas (Deutsche Grammophon). Once a leading German avant-garde composer, Henze often writes mistily modern and weirdly beautiful music. In this score, German Soprano Edda Moser floats through the vocal stratosphere with astonishing ease, and demonstrates a bewildering range of sound and color...
...strutting and capering in the manner of Mack Sennett's mute screwballs. Such flickering shenanigans are the most comical part of The Comic, but they are also the most derivative. The film gains its validity and poignance when Billy Bright reaches a crossroads and veers to the wrong. Sound movies are bunk, he decides, and abruptly the humor fades to black...
ROCK AND ROLL experiences, like drug experiences, depend on your fantasy life. In performance we respond not to the music or the artists themselves, but rather to their convulsive evocation of our own unconscious imagery. The best rock and roll bands, then are those whose synthesis of sound and image arouses the most violent and endurable fantasies, dreams and roles you can wear in everyday life. Sometimes the music gets in the way of fantasy, as in jazz, and the rock becomes reviewable, esoteric. Sometimes the fantasy becomes too formless (space music, psychedelia) or too simplistic (rock and roll revival...
MUSICALLY they are a very different band than when I last saw them over three years ago. The Stones, never much on melody, have always relied upon tension and frenzy in their sound. The frenzy comes from the strong assertion of the quintessential rock and roll instruments-drums and bass guitar. Watts hits the snare drum obsessively with a force whose pure violence is unequalled by any other drummer. His elementary patterns are cretinous because the Stones like it that way, not, as detractors would have it, because he can't play any other way, (A high-point...