Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have found something now which fills the gap. Since meeting His Holiness, I feel great...
Filling the Gap. Unlike the occasional celebrity who grows to believe his own publicity and uses it as a license, the Beatles have maintained their good humor and, apart from toying with drugs, their exemplary behavior. But fame and instant millions also have a way of inflicting private agonies on public personalities. The Beatles' current solution is spiritualism, specifically "transcendental meditation," as propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 56, a tiny, cherubic seer with shoulder-length locks. The yogi, unfortunately, is somewhat less than lucid when it comes to describing his insights. Two 30-minute sessions of transcendental meditation...
...hours on a song, often working through the night. The startling crescendo in A Day in the Life illustrates their bold, erratic, but strikingly successful method. Says Paul: "Once we'd written the main bit of the music, we thought, now look, there's a little gap there; and we said oh, how about an orchestra? Yes, that'll be nice. And if we do have an orchestra, are we going to write them a pseudoclassical thing, which has been done better by people who know how to make it sound like that-or are we going...
...Philharmonia, who had trouble following the recipe. Unaccustomed to ad-libbing, they had to be cajoled by John and Paul, who threaded among the musicians, urging them to play at different tempos and to please try not to stay together. Partly as a result of filling that "gap," the Sgt. Pepper album cost three months of work and $56,000 -which is about as much as it costs to record five albums for London's New Philharmonia Orchestra...
...central failure of the play is a credibility gap between the audience and the characters. One believes in neither their shenanigans nor their sufferings. The actors do not close the gap. Ingrid Bergman is beguilingly lovely at 52, but she poses, more often than she performs, for a camera that is not there. Colleen Dewhurst puts consistent bristle, greed and spunk into Sara, bul cajolery does not seem to be her brand of brogue. Since quite a bit of O'Neill's dialogue is melodramatic, maudlin or mushy, Arthur Hill does little more than tread gingerly...