Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into "Good Morning, Good Morning," interpreted by most Beatleologists as an affirmation of everything happy in life. But this is an ambiguous song, in which can also be seen a denunciation of the urban rat race. It uses country metaphors to comment on city life, starting out with a hearty cockcrow, but ending up with a pack of hounds yelping after their prey. Maybe life has the singer at bay, and he doesn't know...
...exit the Beatles, their musical over. Except for their most triumphant and theatrical bit of all--an epilogue which wipes the grin off the face of a wildly contented audience and sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer...
...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...
...mere mention of a motel in the same breath as an Adams photograph is grotestque; after all, he is the official photo-muralist of the Department of the Interior. But the comment illustrates a fundamental need of the viewer; a photograph must be somehow associable with him. Because he lacks or rejects the use of human scale, Adams' photographs are most effective on three-and four-foot panels. Everything is larger than life; he chooses subjects before which a human being stands tiny and speechless...
...Measure for Measure is fundamentally a medieval inquistion into the nature of sin. Watching Mayer tone down the medieval and bring out the modern social comment is something like seeing Luis Set redecorate Chartres. This is not to say that it is without good moments, full of insight into the deepest insides of the play. But they are only moments...