Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Zentaro Kosaka flew into Seoul, the first Japanese official to set foot on South Korean soil since the end of the war. Though students paraded, shouting, "We still remember your occupation," the official reception was cordial. Kosaka flew back to Tokyo, remarking, "I hope my visit will have an effect like a magic mallet [Japan's version of Aladdin's lamp] which produces inexhaustible treasures...
...effect, the maneuver would give the Soviets a legal right to interfere in hemisphere affairs...
...produced some first-rate performances, (London's Girl of the Golden West, RCA Victor's brilliant new Turandot, Columbia's Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok) too often the stereo disks appeal not to music lovers but to sound addicts, craving to be enveloped by that "wraparound" effect...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the melody...
...production is slick, the songs are good-notably one in which Crooner Frankie Vaughan says with fervor, in effect, never mind good lyrics, "give me a song that sells"-and the plot no thinner than most. The supporting actors are expert, especially Tony Randall, who plays Montand's pressagent with an accurate blend of servility and fresh-faced eagerness. One reason why the film, although consistently pleasant, is only fitfully funny may be a plague now widespread in Hollywood movies. Milton Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby appear in brief "cameo" parts as themselves (they are supposed...