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While "choirgirl hotel" ends with a disappointingly mediocre song called "Pandora's Aquarium"--a feat echoing Pink's conclusion with the epic but lifeless "Yes Anastasia"--the final stages of this album remain fascinating. "Hotel" (the song, not the album itself) changes quite suddenly into a hypnotic pseudo-techno piece, shifting the mood of the song from painfully emotional to pure recklessness. Although "Playboy Mommy" may resemble a lazy folk songs more than a pop number, it fits nicely as the next-to-last song on the album, winding down contentedly from Amos'veritable smorgasbord of musical moods...
Sheedy's performance maintains an incredible level of focus and emotion, a feat that High Art itself does not manage to copy. For one, the last chapter of the film involves a descent into sentiment that nothing in the rest of the picture prepares us for. Moreover, Cholodenko falls into her own writerly trap just as Neil LaBute did in last year's In the Company of Man: her escalating interest in her story's allegorical conflicts of Work, Love, and Ambition bleed all the initial power from an emotionally explosive scenario...
...high wind and delivered a swoopingly post-Modernist oration that sounded like James Joyce addressing a Rotary luncheon on the planet Mars. His extraterrestrial gibberish nonetheless communicated to the diners an elegant music that left them well pleased and warmly mystified. Do not attempt this feat yourself. Moynihan is a trained professional...
...country were all Beatles records. By year's-end they had logged a head-spinning 29 hits on the U.S. charts. It is hard--no, it is impossible--to imagine any of the gazillion or so carefully marketed little bands of today replicating a quarter of that feat. (Even a contemporary English group such as Oasis, which baldly appropriates the superficialities of the Beatles' style, entirely misses the still-magical heart of their music...
...Crimson's accomplishment cannot be overstated. Simply put, it made national history. Even if another 16 seed comes along one day and duplicates the feat, Harvard was still the first. Moreover, the likelihood of another non-scholarship school matching the Crimson's achievement is slim, at best...