Word: ballads
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...well. Her voice is less pure, but it has body and conviction, and she has a good repertory of songs that are more indigenous to Greenwich Village than her native Colorado. In her third and best album, she sings Dylan and Seeger, but her stopper is a haunting new ballad about an ancient injustice done to a girl named Anathea, in bed, of all places...
...When you explained the procedure that the Russians go through to preserve the body of Lenin, I was reminded of those wonderful lines from Robert Service in his The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb...
...light, ghostly touch is somewhat lacking from High Spirits. Act 1 foot-drags until Go into Your Trance sets the stage shivering with dancing spooks and eerily flying chairs and tables. Except for a love ballad, If I Gave You ("prides of lions"), the Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray score is uneventful. Living in trial bigamy, Edward Woodward is as suave as he was simple in last season's Rattle of a Simple Man. But the good-luck charms of High Spirits are Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes, who push the show for laughs more often than it moves...
...fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die-they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light...
...onslaught begins under the opening credits. A B-52 bomber nuzzles up to a jet tanker for mid-air refueling while the sound track pours forth an unctuous ballad called Try a Little Tenderness. Cut to Burpelson Air Force Base, where General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches the offensive against Russia, then severs communications with SAC. Hayden's playing seems extremely right. His Ripper is impotent, a one-man military complex who means singlehanded to save the world from water fluoridation and other Communist plots "that threaten the purity and essence of our natural fluids." He alone knows...