Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Help Me Rhonda" was released. The music is still plastic California music; except for an occasional venture into rhythm and blues, the Beach Boys stick with intricate harmonies woven around simple, familiar melodies. The production and engineering throughout the entire album is brilliant, enabling the Beach Boys to execute complex overdubbing and special electronic effects with subtlety...
...When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in that warfare. I will not cry 'peace' as long as there is sin and wrong in the world," and Nixon has used these words to explain the war in Asia. The Messianic complex of the American Liberal, the self-confidence with which liberal politicians have meddled in foreign affairs, is a mantle which fits perfectly on Nixon's broad shoulders...
This as much as anything typifies the philosophy behind the Orson Welles Cinema and its brothers and sisters in the UCA complex. To charges of hip capitalism, the people at UCA will respond that there can be something of a romantic vision in a corporate venture, and that the venture can be of service to the community...
Frances Gitter, administrative director of UCA's latest venture, The Film School, and wife of Dean Gitter, one of the founding fathers of the Welles, explains the philosophy behind the UCA complex: "From the beginning, Dean and Peter [Peter Jaszi, program director at the Welles], and I felt that the actual presentation of films had been so plastic. We wanted a place where people could sit-down and talk. We've always thought of the Welles as a framework for generating real community feeling...
Some of the problems of The Film School faces now are purely logistical and should be ironed out soon. For instance, will the new complex (classrooms, labs, and 230 seat screening room) behind the present Welles Cinema open within the next two weeks as scheduled? If not, the practical filmmaking courses which will rely heavily on laboratory work, won't, as one UCA staff member said, "be worth shit...