Word: caperers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more nuanced album than Cracked Rear View, although, it should be pointed out, greater subtlety is not something that necessarily translates into greater sales. The CD starts with a rush--a ragged, propulsive song called Be the One--before going into a trio of engagingly sweet-sounding songs, Sad Caper, Tucker's Town and She Crawls Away. Hootie's core sound hasn't changed a whole lot; this isn't their Sgt. Pepper's. But the lyrics are more enigmatic, and the songs have ebb and flow instead of the straight-ahead sonic attack that characterized Cracked Rear View. When...
...think the Trafalgar Square caper indicates that smoked pigeon on radicchio has replaced bangers and mash in the hearts of the English. The pigeons could be served as anything. As Escoffier, or one of them, may have said, "Chopping up is the great leveler...
...happy ending of the banner caper, however, did not go unappreciated...
...produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take at a world that loves to play practical jokes on her. Before surrendering to romance in the final reel, she cranks...
Some evolution has taken place in this crippled genre. Take last month's "Losing Isaiah." Hmm, you think, could be about death, kidnapping or even a slam-bang lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did I know? Luckily, I saw the subheading: "Who Decides What Makes a Mother?" Yes, these titles have become so vague that a whole other title of unlimited length--defeating the entire original objective--becomes necessary...