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...more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best of them are stethoscopes detecting sounds often unheard: the diminished pulse beat of a love gone sour, the anxiety beneath male bravado, the hum of appliances in a lonely woman's flat. One must listen closely; Aznavour's charisma is implosive. He does not play to the audience so much as he admits it to his bittersweet, no-illusions world...
...film: a downtown gallery of elegant, provocative images. Warning shadows pin actors against the wall. Bedrooms and boardrooms alike are illuminated by lasers, neon, smoke, creepy red and blue filters. Single-source lighting throws every face and motivation into sinister relief. And under the action, jazz-rock music - a hum of bass, synthesizer and baritone sax - moves continuously, like a shark in shallow water. To be sure, Vortex engages the eye, not the gut. But for $80,000, an eyes-only feast should be enough...
Also lacking imagination are Irene Costello and Jeff Schantz's costumes, which, while featuring yards of lame and hundreds of sequins, are nevertheless ho-hum, large scale versions of the homemade costumes mom used to fashion for the kingergarten pageant. Notable exceptions, however, are the strangely abstract and witty outfits created for the Sun and the North Wind. In contrast to the generally amsicurish look of the costumes, Len Schnabel's set and lighting design is spare, elegant and very effective...
...vent above your head in the ceiling begins to hum. This means the executioner has turned on the fan to suck up the smell of burning flesh. There is little time left. On your right you can see the waisthigh, one-way mirror in the wall. Behind the mirror is the executioner, standing before a gray marble control panel with gauges, switches and a foot-long lever of wood and metal at hip level...
Pusey was floodlit, carpeted, and vibrating with a disconcerting electronic hum. It also seemed completely empty. Not being Pusey habituees, they explored. At first the wide-open entrance doors and quietly blinking monitors got on their nerves, but at 2:30 they happened on a luxurious lounge area equipped with two cushioned chairs, a complete 15-volume Oxford English Dictionary, a picture window overlooking Pusey's under ground courtyard, and a Centrex phone. They used the Centrex for duty calls to several home bases and then relaxed It was time for some reading...