Word: hollowness
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...there's The Who's new Quadrophenia. It's too soon to grant it Great Moment status, but it certainly extends Townshend's credentials as an innovator, and it sure beats Tommy all hollow as an opera. The album's advantage is that it retains its committment to its music. Tommy's failure was due partially to the absurdity of its scenario and also to its author's over-committment to operatic form--to the detriment of the music. The resulting confusion produced a remarkably uneven work. It had little depth and it was moralistic, even melodramatic...
Quadrophenia is much more luced. Just as it addresses itself to the rock in "rock opera," it draws on a readily recognizable context: the Mod-Rocker wars of the middle sixties. From which wars sprung The Who, among many. While Tommy's hollow symbolism may have destroyed its viability, Quadrophenia's Jimmy is accessible thematically and physically, as far as two dimensions will carry him. The picture book insert not only fleshes out the scenario, but gives the listener an almost tangible hero. At the same time there is that hint of Townshend mysticism. The idea of fusing the band...
...immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that won a new one. As Karl-Oscar grows older, he prospers, moving from sodhouse to log cabin, to frame house, and finally to a fine big farmhouse dress in fresh paint. Along...
...Hollow Hills, Stewart...
...these custom-made headquarters, Jim Rippe '69, a former History and Literature student, turns out his zany--but certainly not dismissable--structures of fired clay. They are not ceramics, and though they are hollow they can't really be called pottery. Rippe would like to resist calling them anything...