Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white men in this picture seem like stereotypes, and Duff's father-in-law like Uncle Tom himself, it's clearly because playing a stereo-type means playing it safe in the South. But this film isn't meant to be an argument or a case history. It is particular; it asks us to be Duff Anderson for 92 minutes. Where D. W. Griffith, for instance, appealed to the fears of a group, this movie appeals to the aspirations of individuals...
...Solo. Off the screen, he is a swinging bachelor who drives around in a Lincoln Continental convertible, which he insists is not maroon in color but "black cherry." The car has a telephone and a monaural tape machine; it will soon have two telephones, a TV set, a stereo tape recorder, an icemaking midget refrigerator and a walnut-paneled bar. He is a wine lover and a gourmet...
...what may be an ultimate even in Hollywood home projection facilities, Wasserman's movie-screening room is actually a separate building-with a sliding aluminum roof and enough couch-side buttons to thrill General Sarnoff-one for controlling stereo, others for tape machines, radio, and the movie sound-track volume. As he sits in this room and judges all he has done in the past few years, he has a great deal more in mind than the simple Hollywood formula: "If it makes money, it's good...
PHILLY JOE JONES & ELVIN JONES TOGETHER (Atlantic), Two top drummers (no kin) trade solos in triumphant tattoos and combine in layered rhythms to launch some short flights by Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Pianist Wynton Kelly and other swingers. Philly Joe rattles the right stereo, Elvin the left...
...Senator seems very remote from any political stereo-type. He is no glad-hander: as he gave a radio interview, he stared constantly at the table or his cigarette or gently rubbed his eyebrows, and only rarely looked at his interviewers. Later when he addressed a larger group, he appeared at ease--but never excited, never given to rhetorical flourishes. At times, as he answered the endless questions about the future of Republicanism, he seemed a tolerant New England prep school headmaster-patiently explaining what he had explained so many times before...