Word: clinkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal word--that "costly" fails the "huh?" test--produces a clinker. But McNamee is a writer, a name to mark down...
...times there is too much fuss in the arrangements, and the set includes one clinker -- a souped-up duet with Johnny Mathis on Day Follows Day in which it's obvious the two singers recorded in separate studios. But with a half- | spoken rendition of Sondheim's Old Friend, Horne demonstrates why she may be unrivaled at creating a character in a song. Horne seems rhythmically more daring than she used to be, toying with the beat in Havin' Myself a Time with an assurance that reveals how much she owes to Billie Holiday, the singer who made the song...