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...Splice of Life. To capture a symphony on vinyl today, the score is segmented and recorded over and over on some 45,000 ft. of tape. Then the best passages are shredded into as many as 250 snippets, shuffled into order and spliced into a single, note-perfect performance on 3,800 ft. of master tape...
...hour. "Some people," he cautioned, "expect a tearful farewell. Others expect I will take a few swings." But Jack held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was to limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring. Or replaying his "Now a message from Alka-Seltzer," which was unexpectedly punctuated by a belch from Jonathan Winters. Or sending...
...about the Houses, the editors have consciously tried to give more substantial profiles of Faculty members than in volumes past. Traditionally, the writing about the Harvard Faculty in undergraduate publications has taken three forms: dust-cover summaries which regurgitate schools attended, books published, and hobbies; interview transcripts which splice together quotes with transitional comments; and critical essays in which the writer combines biographical and interview material with some knowledge of the man's field to establish a point of view outside the man himself...
Believing that an occasional sprained ankle is preferable to conducting private affairs in the hall, Cliffies learned to splice wires, and the problem was solved--until...
...whole: it so furiously resents the race prejudice of the whites that it unconsciously adopts the race prejudice of the Negroes. In The Cool World, all Negroes are innocent, even when they are guilty; all whites are wrong, especially when they are right. Furthermore, the moviemakers too often splice sociology with sensation, documentary with melodrama. And finally, the cinematography is inexcusably sloppy-U.S. audiences, wise in the ways of the hand-held camera, are no longer likely to confuse the absence of art with the presence of truth. Still and all, The Cool World has an impact...