Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think New York is governable," said Lindsay. "But we've got to go through sound barriers. No one should be surprised at some of the things going on. In the Kerner Commission Report [on civil disorders] we pointed out that this polarization of extreme forces would occur. The centrists and the moderates have to keep fighting to keep the extremist elements from colliding head on and killing each other. That's what democracy is all about-trying to steer a middle peaceful course between chaos at one end and tyranny at the other...
...railway employees raced to put out the fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
...hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because it is the poor people who are really inventing the language. Yours anonymously, Godard...
...program earlier this year with the Baldwin version of the electronic piano. Says Dr. Dean Boal, dean of the school: "We had a kind of 1984 apprehension about the system when it first arrived. But not any more. Though it gives a good approximation of real piano sound, though its touch is reasonably realistic, obviously it will never replace the conventional piano. You can succeed with it only if you do not ask it to do things it cannot. When the student and teacher come to style, interpretation, nuance, touch, then clearly they will have to work at a real...
...ever filmed-is only the beginning. During the couple's repeatedly interrupted trip, which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter...