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...royal-blue tights flung themselves across the stage like beanbags. Crazed clowns attacked a plastic bubble, which, inflating like a Zeppelin, devoured them alive. Minstrels strutted, samurai cut curlicues in the air. And while filmed images slithered across a billowing screen, a man and a woman simulated lovemaking as strobe lights flickered, spotlights raked the audience, and a raga-rock band screamed bloody murder...
...tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...
Last year Rollei's 1,700 workers turned out 90,000 cameras. And they are constantly working on new products, including half a dozen strobe guns, projectors and camera models to be introduced by June. In fact, about the only old family tradition other than quality that is still honored at Rollei is secrecy about earnings. Peesel says that "the whole camera world would scream if I told what we're making." And it isn't Braunschweiger...
Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks. In a decade where drugs are commonly associated with cinema in terms of strange optical effects, whirling patterns of color, and strobe-lit copulation, Conrad Rooks' Chappaqua appears almost ascetic, carefully constructed and disciplined. Recounting the story of his won cure from drug and alcohol addiction, Rooks adheres to a dramatic convention where the drug visions stem largely from objectively presented details of Rooks' past life. This is not to say that all films of psychedelia profit from traditional structuring; but by sticking to a coherent narrative, Rooks and photographer Robert Frank make this nether world...
...meeting got underway at about 9 a.m. in a second floor conference room in the west wing of the White House. Strobe Talbott from Yale and Steve Cohen, who had just graduated Amherst, would be two of the principle student spokesmen. Douglass Cater, a presidential advisor and one of the Administration's "liberals in residence"; Daniel Davidson, a Bundy aide; and William Bundy were among the Administration representatives...