Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three archetypal murderers crisscross their dual pilgrimages, bent on savagely having waste the inhabitants of the primitive countryside. Irrational and unexplained, the murderers rise up like dream figures, as relentlessly hounding as the Furies. The country people become a Greek chorus, polarized between suspicion and curiosity, innate generosity and indifferent cruelty. McCarthy captures the intimate tonalities of their simple speech...
...indulgence plays a large part in the beauty of their sound. The singing is as loose as a hired field hand's and is exactly right on each cut. With The Weight, they pay their debt to country gospel music and then some. The bring-it-on-home chorus, "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free,/Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me," begs for a singalong. This album is an event, and will be regarded as one of the best pops of the year...
Barrault's removal set off a chorus of protest by French stage figures and critics. Nearly half of Barrault's actors vowed to quit the Théâtre de France if he decides to form a new company of his own. Meanwhile, the Odéon is deserted. Only an occasional patrolling gendarme walks its stage...
...Humphrey. Moreover, he himself realized that the delegates, on the night of the filmed tribute to Robert Kennedy, might be less than receptive. As it was, the memorial movie stopped the convention cold. With Broadway Star Theodore Bikel leading the way, and Actress Shirley MacLaine weeping freely, delegates sang chorus after chorus of the Battle Hymn of the Republic while the chairman futilely gaveled for silence...
This goes on for seven minutes and eleven seconds, making it the longest single the Beatles have ever recorded. At the end, a swatch of melody is repeated by an orchestra and chorus for nearly four minutes while the Beatles vamp and shout over it. It is a fadeout that engagingly spoofs the fadeout as a gimmick for ending pop records...