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...Cooder and Leon Redbone. The usual reviews of Ry Cooder's concerts have differed mainly as to whether he is the best white blues guitarist or potentially the best white blues guitarist. If you like barroom-type songs done in a monotonous drone, you'll like Leon Redbone also. Saturday, April 27 at sanders Theater...
...good example is "Kitty's Back" on E Street, which combines elements of Broadway, blues, barroom horns and raunch in a stunning tour of every emotion you would feel if you knew somebody named Kitty and she was back. But the best example is "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", Springsteen's showstopper...
...tramped the route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years of completion...
...eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven, and much of his work has not worn well-the prostitutes with hearts of gold, the barroom philosophers marinated in Nietzsche, the neoclassical alas-and-alackers of his Greek-facade tragedies. In experiments like The Great God Brown, O'Neill aspired to be the playwright-as-thinker and failed. It was with the family that he could do almost nothing right in life and almost nothing...
...clearest image of New York is that of a city of struggle and death. Christian finds murder going on all around him, and a constant challenge to become involved in the sea of fighting. Barroom brawls lead to murders as he watches. He and his mistress, Fanny, spy on a murderess who goes through a husband and a lover before the police catch up with her. And, once he becomes attached to her, Fanny also dies. Finally convinced that he will certainly die if he stays any longer, Christian leaves the city, heading back across the ocean...