Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policies on the war, farm problems, gun control and the cities, but in a colorless style that tends to tune out his audiences. While both men are uncommonly shy for politicians, Bellmon drives himself through a saturation-handshaking pace. His key tack is the charge that Monroney has lost touch with the red-dirt prairies and hills of home...
...addition to lectures on the glories of Scientology, initiates must answer a long series of questions, often highly personal, while clutching two tin cans wired to an "E-meter," an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes). By watching the fluctuations of a needle, Scientologist "auditors" can supposedly discern when a student has become "clear" and has attained "total awareness and freedom.'' Students attempting to drop out before becoming "clear" have been subjected to hard-sell pitches advising them...
...claims to have a membership in the thousands. In the U.S., where it operates ten "churches," it seems to have a strong appeal for hippies. Though Hubbard "retired" two years ago, when he sold the good will of his name to the movement for $240,000, he keeps in touch by Telex with international headquarters in Britain...
Written in the composer's emotional, pre-twelve-tone style, the music predict ably irritated some listeners and in spired others. But there was no denying the touch of a master in Jakobsleiter's expressionistic orchestral colors and its delicate, wispy, half-song half-speech. Neil Peter Jampolis' silver-staired setting, Robert Baustian's serene conducting and, among the fine cast, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm's deep, firm-voiced Gabriel only added to the success of the occasion...
...sanctimonious judge who orders multiple executions, Ed Begley as a frightened outlaw, and Michael O'Sullivan as a hysterical, doomed criminal. But neither the performances nor the gundown-at-sundown story coalesce into more than a sanguinary celebration of vigilante justice. With some evocative photography and a touch of gallows humor, Director Ted Post tries to make Hang 'Em High stylish and spirited enough to swing. It swings all right-like a body at the end of a rope...