Word: clunker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is why the extraordinarily accurate a capella performance of his Mass (1963) by the Glee Club and Choral Society was a pleasurable emotional experience as well as an impressive display of musicianship. Except for one clunker that occured when the singers failed to listen to each other on the Credo "passus et supultus est" and an octave became a major seventh, the Glee Clubs exhibited a professional command of the difficult intervals and harmonies. Unfortunately, the great energy that was consumed in singing the right notes left nothing for interpretation, and the resulting dynamic inflexibility diminished much...
...film with such a transparent plot could easily have been a clunker, but instead, The Easy Life is a wildly enchanting film. Director Dino Risi starts with what seems to be an upper middle class La Dolce Vita. Bruno, a middle-aged playboy from Rome, drives his sports car fast but isn't really happy because, deep down, he's bored and leading a superficial existence...