Word: grace
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Relaxed bemused and in conversation, with the slightly seedy, long-legged grace of the star forward on a reform-school basketball team, Johansen in performance is is like the living soul of big city rock, restless and implacable. He works fast (lyrics for three of the tunes on the new album were written while the band was off having dinner), performs at white heat. He likes to keep the music simple, the lyrics spare, so that a song like Flamingo Road reaches high and wide, becomes an angry, baiting confessional stashed inside a catchy pop threnody. Flamingo Road...
...struggling under the side of the desk in the center of the stair, uttering his own brand of condescension: "apebreath, banana boy, wop, grease ball, pizzabrain, vegetable-peddler;" he was pulling all the plugs on a last ditch performance to maintain grace. And I was unable to respond, my own vicious and maligned thoughts were tripping over each other, filling my mouth with cotton candy, my head with the stuff of insanity...
...corner will never be Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley. And maybe the princess maneuvering her Barbies around the doll house will never be Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet or Jean Simmons making her way through Great Expectations and Olivier's Hamlet with certainty and erotic grace. But to one degree or another, most kids-even yours-are actors anyway. Before a camera, most could be great if they did not learn, for whatever reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid brats who curdled their way through most Hollywood films...
...dozen years Prospero and his daughter have lived on the island, Caliban has striven to better himself and has learned how to speak well. In the course of the play he learns valuable lessons and at the end asserts, "I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace...
Robert W. Wallace, a teaching fellow in the course, said Vazquez told him he would not be able to take the course. "He never came to class after the grace period (of three days) had expired," he added...