Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singer-pianist Memphis Slim, backed by guitarist Peter Green (Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac), organist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Duster Bennett on harmonica, Chris Spedding, Pete Winfield, and others. The performance of everyone, especially producer Philippe Rault, is absolutely flawless; the juxtaposition of early Forties blues structure with ultramodern instrumentation and arrangement completely transcends the concept of mere revival. It is a tour de force of textural and harmonic complexity within the blues idiom. On side one, expatriate Memphis Slim tells the story of his birth in Tennessee, migration to Chicago, and eventual emigration to France. Side two presents...
Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
Beginning in 1955 with an aging tramp steamer, Pao has built a fleet of 3.5 million tons, most of it in ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...
What he yearns for is a therapeutic attachment for his gadget so that he can cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics...
...also found a new use for an even older weapon-the 15,000-lb. conventional iron bombs of World War II vintage. They are being parachuted from C-130 transports in Viet Nam and Laos to create "instant copter pads." The same task is being performed by an ultramodern weapon called a "fuel air bomb," which weighs up to 1½ tons. Dropped by parachute, it relies on the detonation of propane gas and air to create intense heat and shock waves, which effectively clear small landing areas...