Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect outlet for Davies's strong attachment to the music hall/vaudeville traditions of his youth. The song was introduced in a quasi-puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since...
...Greek culture and the realities at home. All the stands that we have taken never represented a narrow but often a unanimous majority of our membership which represents a wide band on the political spectrum. We take pride in that the Hellenic Students Association functions in the most democratic fashion and it is painful to read in the Crimson article that the Association is of a "totalitarian radical" nature. The use of the term "totalitarian" seems absurdly unjust when used to characterize a group of people who have risked a lot to oppose a totalitarian government in Greece. The quadrupling...
...Dreams, power and imagination," murmured High Priestess of Fashion Diana Vreeland. She was looking over galleries that glittered and winked with rhinestones, diamanté, sequins and paillettes. It was on the eve of her exhibition, Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in chief was putting last-minute touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh...
That this opera could have been neglected for so many years testifies to the cruel, often mindless vagaries of musical fashion in the U.S. throughout the past generation or two. Legend is not a great work. It does not introduce any innovations in musical or dramatic style. It could in fact as easily have been written in 1910 as 1941. It has the directness (though not the genius) of Verdi, the misty orchestral hues of Delius and a soulful melodic style that both Puccini and Sigmund Romberg might have liked. Given the longstanding American addiction to the new and different...
...aims of the Jackson company. Until the founding of Opera/South, there was little opportunity in Mississippi for blacks to sing opera. The backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company's annual $102,000 budget, a moneysaving feat that could...