Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this sort of treatment works; Julia is currently ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. Analyzing those numbers, NBC statisticians report that Julia attracts an "upscale" audience -more urban, wealthier and better educated than the average. There are no indications of either a boycott by Southern whites or heavier tune-in among blacks. Predictably, though, Negro militants are outraged. And, to be sure, Julia is rarely confronted with the tough problems of being born black. She would not recognize a ghetto if she stumbled into it, and she is, in every respect save color, a figure in a white milieu...
...hardly be considered doctrinaire. He will likely recommend the use of the same tax-and-monetary tools relied on by the New Economists, but more sparingly. He believes that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the economy, particularly by relying too much on changes in tax rates to "tune" the state of business. The current 10% tax surcharge helped convince him that tax increases are not only difficult to ram through a constituent-minded Congress but usually have slow effects when finally enacted. "We are beginning to realize," says McCracken, "that fiscal policy is simply not available...
...record was Rubber Soul, which brought about the supreme liberation of rhythm-and-blues by injecting an unprecedented controlled melody into the rigid structure of thumping drums and bass. In doing so, Rubber Soul significantly dissolved this structure by making it technically and spiritually possible to fuse a lurching tune onto stuttering, free drums. This development led the Beatles directly through the half-successful numbers "Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" to its culmination in the masterpiece, "Strawberry Fields...
...work in quantity and sell it cheaply at a department store. "To me, a rope is a simple, physical expression of an idea, a way of conveying information. What gives a man power today is not what he has, but what he knows. The gallery system is out of tune with the times...
Full-length cartoon features have been based on novels (Gulliver's Travels), fairy tales (Snow White), even classical music (Fantasia). Yellow Submarine may be the first to be based on a song. Recorded in 1966, the Beatles' jaunty single was jolly good nonsense that even a tune-deaf kid could sing. It was also a sly euphemism for a drug-inspired freak-out. The movie ends up as a curious case of artistic schizophrenia. The score includes several hits by the Beatles and just as many misses. The plot and the animation seem too square for hippies...