Word: languors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the simple genius of Brel's music carries the show. With deftness and economy this balladeer of the down-and-out mixed the tender and the funereal into a weltschmertz as heady as any German musician has ever brewed. These are songs that use familiar sounds--the sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts...
...world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow tones, simultaneously evoking both the languor of rural life and the lushness of the surrounding countryside...
When Dr. Astrov speaks of the ravaged soil of Russia, he means his ravaged soul as well, but Bedford delivers the lines like an ad campaigner against environmental pollution. Henry's Elena is a femme fatale of provocative dimensions, but she moves with a languor that confuses sensuality with sedation. If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small...
When suddenly everyone left town and the accouterments of power vanished and the languor set in again, even Tarpley Mott confessed that the trouble had been worthwhile. It was he who managed a seat in the front row and shook hands afterwards with the man who answered the questions. When congratulated on this, he said: "If you know this town the way I do, you can get into anywhere, I don't care who visits." But the remark was not cynical the way it may sound on paper...
...make a glad noise of their own. Barry Bailey plays lead guitar; the Rhythm in the title is floor-shakingly taken care of by J.R. Cobb, Paul Goddard and Robert Nix on rhythm guitar, bass and drums, respectively. Their vocals have Dean Daughty leading. His voice has the languor of kudzu growing down from the trees in the warmer climes--he neocroons a song like "All Night Rain", monument to puppy-love. Other times sings with all the fire and drive of Lynnyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama...