Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan
...which Michael can be heard ducting with Jackson-for-aday Mick Jagger, is doing nicely. But this is very much an album in need of what the record business calls tour support. The most interesting song-or the most curious, at any rate-is Be Not Always, a ballad written and performed by Michael with injections of mournful strings. A sort of nonspecific cry of pain against both personal cruelty and international aggression, the song seems intended as a rejoinder to those who think Michael makes mostly good-time make-out music. As such, it stands in marked contrast...
...hurtled graphics maps across the screen to pinpoint where lesser-known countries are situated, but the globes were so minute that it was hard to discern even continents. Some of the prepackaged features, put together in the name of world brotherhood, were embarrassing: John Denver crooned a mawkish ballad at a mass grave for 11,000 victims of the Nazis; and McKay, Frank Gifford and Bob Beattie mugged their way through a mock-boozy time-out in a Yugoslav...
Tender Mercies. A country singer touches bottom and finds that it consists of good Texas earth in which he can reroot his humanity. Actor Robert Duvall warms and graces Screenwriter Horton Foote's tale with his lived-in face and a performance as raw as a Hank Williams ballad...
...integrate a wide variety of rock styles into their deadpan, minimalist sound; and here their thinness really shows through. In fact, the farther Trio delves into the past, the more disastrous the results. On "Tooralooralooraloo--Is it Old &Is it New," they aim for a tavern European folk ballad, and end up sounding like Perry Como. In fact, this song is so pathetically and limply delivered that it can't even be savored as good camp. "Drei Mann in doppelbett," on the other hand, links a pub chant with a synthopop rhythm with slightly more successful results. Nevertheless, neither...