Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field with the firm assurance of an offensive line coach. Group A is ordered to "mill around" behind one of the movie's stars, Suzette Charles, 18, as she lip-syncs a song. Getting solipsistic '70s people to mill properly is not as easy as it might sound. "Hell no, we won't go." quips a recalcitrant young man, face painted red, white and blue. Some mill too fast, others too slowly: still others stare into the camera when they should be ignoring it. Italia, a billiard-bald extra known as "Miss Bald America," sidles...
Other leave-takers sound similar hard-knocks themes, which may help explain the high number of students who eventually return: over 90% at most colleges...
...fashioned niceties of narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is impossible to decipher what is going on in FM or to identify the characters onscreen. It is also quite difficult to make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo has decreed that much of the movie's crucial dialogue be drowned out by either rock music or random background noise. Perhaps lip readers will be able to judge the merits of FM's actors...
...blue line. We got off the subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed wire, and the sound of dogs barking makes quite a din. The only things lacking are searchlights and watchtowers...
...about to start, and the crowds were craning their necks toward the starting boxes. The greyhounds run after a mechanical rabbit, which hangs out over the track. Its speed is carefully monitored by an employee in the rabbit control box. The rabbit is not scented; its speed and sound attract the dogs to him. From time to time, says Scott, the greyhounds catch the rabbit; they must be sorely disappointed to sink their teeth into a mass of plush and polyethylene...