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...roles Pastan is not so matter-of-fact about is one we all must play at some point: the role of survivor. People are a source of life in Pastan's poetry--her children, her husband/lover, herself. When someone dies, her sense of creativity utters a gasp apart from mourning; its food has been wrenched away. But Pastan remains clam about the way life seems to decay after the death of a loved one. With the lines: The world is shedding - its thousand skins. she survives a funeral by noticing how mourners see the whole world as dry and falling...
Although he is now unable to perceive and describe familiar moment in modern life, Joel apparently has perceived his own slide into sweet-sounding fluff, and on The Nylon Curtain he desperately tries to do something about it. In a last-gasp attempt to attain relevance, he sings about Issues: you know, Unemployment, Social Pressure, Viet Nam, and, of course, Sesame Street. Instead of seizing an elevated song-writing status. Joel glaringly reveals his own detachment from the emotions and situations he describes to others...
...song. "Someday, Someway", that had the critics raving about "the new Buddy Holly." By itself, that little jewel salvaged a mediocre Robert Gordon album. Now, Crenshaw has released his own 33 and all hell has broken loose among those in the know. References to the Byrds. Buffalo Springfield and (gasp) the Beatles have been made. Quickly, the bandwagon has become crowded. And people are beginning to realize: the kid really is that good...
...funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson crossed with an air-raid siren...
...first count, not guilty, by reason of insanity." There was a gasp in the courtroom...