Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many different styles, periods, and uses of the media to come together as a whole. One gets accustomed to the romantic, flourishing stroke of the Italian Renaissance only to be led on to the fleshy, finished modeling of a Prud'hon study for an oil, then to a gnarled rapid Daumier sketch, and from there to the modern works...
...Wacky, rapid-fire comedy is not new to TV. Indeed, Laugh-In's attack has touches of the late Ernie Kovacs, smatterings of early Sid Caesar and Steve Allen, and a-pie-in-the-face splat or two of Soupy Sales. But on Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh...
Pretty Flimsy. Conditions were quite different when the Tokyo exchange set its previous record back in 1961. That high, it turned out, was based on pretty flimsy ground and was soon followed by a rapid collapse. Wild speculation by unregulated brokerage houses, which often used customers' portfolios as collateral, was chiefly responsible for driving up prices. When the bubble burst, thousands of investors lost their life savings. Of some 1,500 Japanese securities firms, fewer than 400 survived...
Skipping over some of the patient analysis in Osborne's script, Jory has chosen to rely entirely on a rapid flow of stage business to present his version of Porter. Jory keeps Marion Killinger pacing the stage with vicious energy, leaping onto tables, sprawling on the floor. He explains the man's anger with a series of visual and auditory irritations--the impassivity of Alison (Karen Grassle) at the ironing board, the obnoxious clang of evening bells, the black and white tedium of a litter of Sunday newspapers, constant courteous offers...
Still, a few weak spots have appeared. Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell...