Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep into this long, mawkish film, the script calls for Susan Sarandon to tumble from a rowboat into a stormy sea off Greece. What she plunges into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...
...changed when the group turned to some golden oldies from the years 1970 to 1974. The applause was thunderous for ELP's version of the Pictures at an Exhibition, a monster hit of 1972. Drummer Palmer took the spotlight as soloist in the churning, pulsating, jazz-oriented Tank. The stage suddenly went dark and then orange, red and yellow lights began to consume him from below, like a huge bonfire The crowd screamed and shouted its approval. At the end of the concert, the aisles near the stage were jammed with girls sitting on their boy friends shoulders, clapping...
Kenny Baker. A machine that looks like a tank-type vacuum was built around him, with lights that he could switch on and off and legs into which he could fit his own. Other Artoo models were built -some scenes have three or four moving all at once-for radio control...
...editorial chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, associate director of the Ford Foundation, and president of the Fund for the Republic, which fought for civil liberties and became an immediate target of McCarthyism. Its resources were used to found the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a think tank that Hutchins headed for 15 years, resuming its presidency in 1975 when it was in disarray...
over the Septic Tank...