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...arrangements, you can take your choice of simple, like Bob Crosby, complicated like Ellington, or in-between, like Goodman. If you have simple arrangements, you should have simple instrumentation. Only Miller has simple arrangements and lush instrumentation. To make matters worse, they're simple to the point of being banal. Certainly his pop tunes are turned out according to formula. On the rhythmic numbers you get more variety, but usually the interesting parts are cribbed from Ellington. Compare "American Patrol" as interpreted by Miller and by Muggsy Spanier. It's one of Miller's better records beyond a doubt...
...Wagner's time. We have a plethora of composers: What we lack is men writing music. Shostakovitch, the most talented and promising of the moderns, is a case in point. In his recent Seventh symphony, which Haggin of the "Nation," a top-notch critic, called "pretentious, feeble, inane, and banal," he was trying to express the heroic character of the time we live in although his own nature is unwarlike and introverted. He attempted to say with music what was in the nature of the case impossible...
...familiar formula--boy meets girl on Hays Office terms. The ending of the picture is a complete reverse, Clive lives and makes an honest woman of Pure by marrying her. Thus what might have been a moving and convincing story of two lives, becomes a confused and completely banal hodgepodge...
...scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor, is the "banal" fact of widespread tooth decay, or "in plain English, a dirty mouth." Improper chewing and constant swallowing of infected matter produce dangerous physical and chemical irritation of the digestive tract. Prevention of this form of cancer involves a change "in mode and habits of life...
Across from the police station was Le Panier Fleuri (The Flower Basket), "the neighborhood bordel run by Madame Mariette." The other corner was occupied by a laundry "which employed three hardworking girls and also served as a clandestin. That is to say, men who found it banal to patronize the orthodox establishment could, if they were known...