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...first 40 minutes of the hour and a half show, Smith read from Early Works 1970-1979. Opening with an early poem, "Ballad of a Bad Boy," her jagged voice revealed her hard-core side--the punk Smith, utterly defiant and deviant...
...those fabulous songs from the Gulf War? Oh, that's right, there weren't any. And we'd guess that few families gather round the piano to sing of the invasions of Grenada and Panama. Vietnam is pretty much an angry face-off between Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (The Ballad of the Green Berets) and Country Joe & the Fish (I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag). The Korean War has a memorial now, but still no memorable songs. It's as if, after World War II, Americans decided that internationally sanctioned slaughter was no longer something to sing...
...originally performed by the Jones Girls in the '70s). While Jodeci's songs are often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing, the lyrics sound like a transcript from a Ricki Lake segment: "Every time I fall I make myself believe that you are changing and someday the sun will shine...
...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...