Word: take-off
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...that it was anybody's political business, but also because the attempt was an evident failure and an exceedingly costly one in its social by-products. It may have put underworld business in the United States in what economic developers call the "take-off" into self-sustained growth
PETER AND THE WOLF (Verve). Bach has been the take-off point for many a jazz exploration. Why not Prokofiev, too? Arranger Oliver Nelson has appropriated the Soviet composer's famous symphonic fairy tale and begins with a straightforward statement of the familiar themes: bird, duck, cat, wolf and Peter. But then a high-spirited jabberwocky takes over as Nelson's two dozen men come on strong, paced by Jimmy Smith at the organ...
...capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged and he evokes a worldwide convention of secret agents meeting under the banner: "If you don't spy, you don't eat." Then...
...when they pulled themselves erect for the take-off, it was clear that Brown's film was about the sport of surfing, not the cult. He ignored the beach goings-on, the bikinied "beach bunnies," and the faked-up music; instead he kept his camera on the athletes who navigated through a sea of underwater rocks, stray boards, sharks, poisonous fish, and other surfers...
This year's "Movie Worsts" will be the longest regular issue the Lampoon has ever published. It will be 52 pages long and feature an expanded awards section, a take-off called My Fair Philly, and suggestions for a screenplay of Beowulf...