Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messenger delivers the letter from Agamemnon to Clytemnestra. She leans out, over the beautiful mountains, and calls, "Iph-i-gen-ia!" (Echo: "Iphigenia, Iphigenia.') The camera zooms down the mountain, music swelliing, Iphigenia whirling around into the frame, arms outstretched, and suddenly we are in the midst of The Sound of Music. Cacoyannis also enjoys choreographing heads as they turn toward one another, apparently fantasizing that he is a thinking man's Busby Berkley. And at the climax of the film, in a stunning shot, the entire army spills over the top of a hill to seize Iphigenia, and patiently...
...Swat, the fly chaser who refused to give up even when Jimmy Carter and Morarji Desai got in his way." As for the Secret Service's not-so-secret conversations, agents explained that they happened to be using the same frequency as the Casino de Paris' stage sound system and, besides, no hush-hush security measures are ever broadcast via walkie-talkies...
...Peking, tickets to ideologically suspect movies are among the most highly prized items on the black market. Though screenings of such films as The Red Shoes and The Sound of Music are restricted to high Communist officials, a clever practitioner of tsou-hou-men can sneak in by exchanging a favor with someone employed in the moviehouse or in the Ministry of Culture...
When Arthur Burns succeeded William McChesney Martin in 1970 as head of the Federal Reserve Board, he had a tough act to follow. After 19 years in the job. Martin had made his name synonymous with sound money management. When Burns himself steps down at the end of this month, his successor, G. William Miller, will find Burns' show quite as difficult to top. As chairman of the Reserve, Arthur Burns was final arbiter of the nation's money supply through eight of the most tumultuous years in economic history-years marred alternately, or sometimes simultaneously, by double...
...disco scenes are an effective mixture of sound, light and movement that catches the intensity and power of the fever that brings these people out to dance. The dance floor is a vibrant pattern of red, blue and yellow flashing lights, punctuated by the incessant disco beat from the record booth. The dancers, especially Tony, are graceful, swirling pairs that make you wish you had learned how to hustle back in high school. Lean back and enjoy the dance scenes for their own sake. They form the backbone of the movie, so you will see a lot of them...