Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters' own musings on art and literature occasionally sound as pretentious or ridiculous as the New Yorker at its worst--("Art was a process of conversion, a machine that could turn even garbage into something clean and glistening...
...familiar insouciant pleasures of the season. This week in a colorful 19-page special section, we indulge in a look at this summer's simple delectations: the thrills of amusement parks and roller coasters, the escape to national parks and summer camps, the haute couture of swimsuits, the sound of bluegrass music, the pleasures of summer reading and the gustatory delights of junk food and beer...
...glass bottle a happy reminder of the 16th century dean of St. Paul's who discovered that beer can be kept for long periods in stoppered bottles. He abandoned a full one in a riverside, then returned to find "no bottle, but a gun, so great was the sound at the opening thereof." He also found a better beverage...
...aloud an urge to "rearrange" Laidlaw's face, Laidlaw replies: "You should fight that. It's called a death-wish." As Mcllvanney pieces him together, Laidlaw emerges as a jumble of contradictions, a sensitive, intelligent soul performing brutal, repetitive work. Indeed, some of Laidlaw's ruminations sound like heavier luggage than a functioning police man ought to carry: "What's murder but a willed absolute, an invented certainty...
...show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...