Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened his remarks by saying that, "Since it's been such a placid year, there really isn't that much to talk about." He then proceeded to recount anecdotes and reminiscences of the student protests...
...ONCE described punk as the scream of a newborn baby, and sooner or later, the baby must learn to talk. Patti has a terrible voice. But the rock instinct in this wiry, imp of a person has made that voice quite a tool, a very arousing and expressive voice so honest in what it is saying and how it is cowling that suddenly, you find cleavage. Besides, no one ever seriously suggested that a rock and roll star had to sing like Frank Sinatra. People like that belong at discos and behind TVs. Got tell Robert Zimmerman...
...shows they did not want to carry. The FCC had long required cable stations to provide "public access" air time to just about any group that put together a show. Though some of the programs perform a real public service (consumer-advice shows, for example), many are excruciatingly dull (talk shows on which people-in-the-street rattle on about nothing in particular) and a few border on pornography (nude dancing on Midnight Blue over Manhattan's Channel...
Warner Cable Corp. is testing in Columbus a "two-way" cable system that enables viewers to talk back to their sets by pressing buttons on a hand-held console (price: $10.95). The programs are local news and talk shows on which performers ask questions of the audience. Every seven seconds a master computer scans the 30,000 homes getting the service and tallies how many are pressing a yes and how many a no button; the response totals are flashed on the screen...
LIKE VICTIMS of psychoanalysis everywhere, Woody Allen's characters talk too much. Allen has, we're told by the many promotional articles or-chestrated to coincide with Manhattan's opening, spent an hour a day for the past 20 years talking to his analyst about his problems. It shows. From the low-key beginning--with Allen's voice dubbed over panoramas of the New York skyline--to the emotional crises towards the end, Manhattan is a movie of words. Its characters erect their troubles out loud, and try to tear them down in conversation...