Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage ("Imagine the nerve of God/ Letting me let you in") before sinking with the admission that "I would be anywhere/ Than here without you." This is bitter poetry: passion recollected in futility...
Much has changed over the years. Tharp is 51 and losing some of her plasticity, if none of her cheek. Baryshnikov is 44. Because of recurrent knee problems, his famous jump has been curtailed and he cannot lift Tharp, but his technique is as pure and liquid as ever. The evening, with mostly new works, tries to cope with the physical realities that confront them both and is only partly successful...
...mood of Little Shop hovers somewhere between tongue-in-cheek and high camp. Director Scott Arsenault should be credited with making sure that the production never sways too far in either direction. Music Director Clara Ohr has elicited good performances from the singers and the ensemble numbers hold together well...
...glory days of their own youth. A&M Records' Tim Noah belts out a Springsteen-style anthem: "I was raised on rock 'n' roll/ Bo Diddley, Fats Domino/ Mama rocked me by the radio/ Raised on rock 'n' roll." Rory, who records for Sony, does a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Diana Ross in a cut from her album I'm Just a Kid. This Saturday, Radio AAHS, a 24-hour children's station in Minneapolis, will sponsor a concert featuring well-known kids' performers like Joanie Bartels and Bob McGrath. They're calling the event Kidstock...
...much of Et Tu, Babe is tongue in cheek? I, mean, is this...