Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French film in the coming years, one of those people will be Bouchez. Emotions play volcanically on her dark features; she illuminates Maite's moods with the flick of a pout or smile. Wild Reeds is a courtly ballad to intelligent passion, and Bouchez is its princess...
...this latest incarnation of Sanders--thesophisticated elder statesman--that one would haveanticipated at the Regattabar. But the spirit ofthe 1970's seemed to resurge while the Sandersgroup was here, and, with the exception of onelovely version of the ballad "It's Easy ToRemember," the entire set consisted of the sort ofeasily digestable yet funky vamps that one couldcall "Crowd-pleasures...
...soundtrack throughout the film is comically melodramatic. Extravagant orchestrations played at ridiculous volumes signal every scene shift seconds before it actually happens. Inevitably, when the orchestra begins to from a joyful, blaring, Christmas song to a slow, drippy, sentimental ballad, it's time for someone to get really mushy...
That 1985 Dionne Warwick ballad, Whisper in the Dark, summons up the erotic appeal of the unknown. And now the man who wrote its lyrics, Edgar Bronfman Jr., is coming closer to possessing something he has desired for most of his 39 years: a Hollywood studio. Last week Bronfman, the president and chief executive officer of Seagram Co., was deep in negotiations with Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial to take control of MCA, which owns record labels, theme parks, TV shows, a pleasant parcel of Southern California real estate-and Universal Studios. Seagram, the Canadian purveyor of whiskey, wine...
...song was no love ballad. Its images were graphic, and many of the lyrics on the album, "Straight Outta Compton," were downright misogynist. But Wright was dead on in describing the rage minorities feel, often justifiably, towards law enforcement. After the Los Angeles riots bore out his point, Wright told the L.A. Times: "We were criticized a lot when we first released that song, but I guess now after what happened...people might look differently on the situation...