Word: staticity
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...nice crooner who nicely sings nice tunes like The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and I'm Sitting on Top of the World. But those fans who hoped to enjoy sweet singing (a commodity that Gary always supplies) should forget this irritating recording. The high-volume static of a noisy audience destroys whatever atmosphere Gary's voice might have created...
...could only claim that the bulk of the "evidence" is on file in a Swiss bank vault and cannot be revealed for 50 years. But what disappointed the opening-night audience in Berlin was a lack not of historical evidence but of dramatic talent. Soldiers came across as a static bore, filled with ponderous moralisms and unwitty aphorisms ("Marriage," says Churchill, "is love without longing") and totally lacking in tension...
Shock Value. Thus the Marines feel that they have already stood and taken practically the hardest punch that North Viet Nam can throw at them until the monsoon ends next April. All the same, military men express considerable doubt about the concept of static defense embodied in Con Thien. Some would prefer to see the Marines make more forays to spike any Communist guns below the North Viet Nam border-as the Israelis did with the Syrian artillery atop the Golan Heights. U.S. military doctrine holds that a force assumes a defensive position only when it is not strong enough...
...ESCALATION. The most modest proposals call for a pause in the bombing of the North and reduction of U.S. "search-and-destroy" operations in the South. Cutting back search-and-destroy efforts would reduce the U.S. to a static defense posture little different from the enclave stance. These swift, surprise sweeps of Viet Cong territory have kept the guerrillas off-balance, deprived them of sanctuaries they have used for years, and prevented any large-scale attacks for three months...
...every attempt to produce the pure Gallic B-flat, while all of Soprano Mirella Freni's undeniable charm was defeated by the pallid music she was asked to sing. New Director Paul-Emile Deiber grouped his singers around Rolf Gerard's workaday sets in a series of static tableaux that had little to do with Shakespeare, Gounod, or anything in that vast area in between...