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...brassy belter (Lynda Baron) of how age has crept up on her; Could I Leave You?, an outpouring of vitriol from a neglected wife (Rigg); Losing My Mind, the pathetic admissions of a suppliant lover (Julia McKenzie). Sondheim's best lyric ever is I'm Still Here, an anthem of survival that compresses four decades of social history into the battered but unrepentant cry of a faded star. It gets a showstopping performance by Dolores Gray, who made her Broadway debut in 1944 and hasn't faded a bit. Follies seemed fragmented and vignettish in 1971, and still does...
...raunchy growl to an angelic trill in a single line -- no sweat. She coaxes the back-street torch song Saving All My Love for You until the song's Other Woman sounds like a little girl lost in faded rapture. She stands up to the string section in that anthem of enlightened egotism, Greatest Love of All, finding the prettiest weave of velvet and voltage. Then the synthesized percussion starts blasting, and she escalates into purring teen ecstasy for How Will I Know and her new hit I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). This is infectious...
...City was not only the boldest political anthem of the '80s, it was also the funkiest. Besides writing the song, Van Zandt was the main man behind the album, the video and the documentary about Sun City, which brought hard rock together with hard facts about South African politics. Freedom -- No Compromise continues that same tough tradition of humanist ideology and high steppin'. "The trickiest part is not to be rhetorical," Van Zandt says, "but to make the songs into an emotional, human communication...
...unanswered," writes Walesa. "But our response will be a coolly reasoned one, imposed on us by our conditions and the peaceful means that we have chosen." Yet his overall tone is optimistic. "Sometimes I feel that I already belong to a period of the kind incarnated in our national anthem, Poland Is Not Dead...
...ladies annna gennalman, for your-a lissenan' a-pleasure...an anthem to all Ec majors and other Wall Street types, to the tune of Steve Martin's hit performance of "You'll Be a Dentist...