Word: accordioned
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Almost eight-thirty. The strolling accordion player breaks away from "The Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," plays a fanfare, and the march into the next room for dinner has begun. The family staggers towards the long head table. The accordion player plays "Here Comes the Bride"; my grandparents enter. A boozy standing ovation. As Lil and Nat take their seats the music switches to "The Old Grey Mare." Some of the assembled join...
Finally they out the big "wedding" cake. Nat and Lil kiss. It is a long kiss, and she shuts her eyes. The accordion plays "Here Comes the Bride" again and many stand up to toast...
...Being. The acting company, known as the Manhattan Project, uses techniques somewhat similar to those of the Open Theater (The Serpent, Terminal), though with a far more liberal use of language. The techniques involve sounds, mimicry, a constant awareness of the body in action (without nudity) and an accordion-like expansion or contraction of an episode or scene in order to isolate moving centers of psychological truth. It is selective rather than narrative drama. It does not chronicle an action; it creates states of being and feeling. In Alice, the playgoer encounters states of dread, of sexuality, of absurdity...
...about the Beach Boys is not so much their sentiments as the musical backing they provide for them. "Tears in the Morning," for example, a Bruce Johnston song that certainly has its moments of melodrama, has a very simple melody which is saved by imaginative backing from a French accordion, a xylophone, violins, and multiple-part harmony. All the songs, no matter how trite the melodies, are recorded with a warmth and fullness that is rare in any record production...
...liberating in that it reduces inhibition, guilt and responsibility. When one opens one's eyes, it is as if one had known this person for months rather than minutes. For several minutes more, the entire group lies pressed together on its sides like the pleats of an accordion, and as if all the bodies had become one flesh...