Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simon (Warner Bros., $5.98). No Top Ten hits here either, just a lot of honest musical fun and pathos from the man who produced and played on The Band's momentous second album. From the striding joy of The Real Woodstock Rag to the jazzy melancholy of King Lear's Blues (Cordelia), Simon shows an individuality all too rare in pop today...
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun . . . You're so vain.-Carly Simon, singing the rock hit You're So Vain...
Masters and servants share a paradoxical equality and intimacy in several works of Western literature and drama. Think of Lear and his Fool, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and, in this rarely presented play of Moliere's, Don Juan and Sganarelle. The masters are in the grip of some consuming passion or obsession; the servants try to sober them up with an occasional cold splash of common sense...
...that wryly understates an oft-expressed continent: "Drop me in a sunny spot/I'd rather be hot than not," "Poem to Eat" combines Siemen's haunting, bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds. "Joy to the World" Wraps a story of Christmas loneliness around the theme...
...your article "The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co." [Sept. 25], you state that Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title for a movie...