Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down the story. There's some kung fu, a Jafar-style villain with satanic powers, a cartoon menagerie (funny monkey, majestic leopard, etc.), and lame comedy with a crudely drawn, Buddha-shaped fall guy. It's all needless--and harmless. But even with pretty, painterly backgrounds and the eternal lilt of the songs, this film has a limited target audience: six-year-old boys who want to be Michael Crawford...
Fraser's persistent perkiness can be either endearing or unnatural. Did all kids back then talk with a chipper lilt like Jay North's in "Dennis the Menace?" Other than that, Fraser is at ease as Adam the man-child 60's freak. After all, he's had plenty of practice playing the misfit in Encino Man and George of the Jungle...
...racks. Nineteen-year-old Esthero, singer of a Toronto trip-hop duo that bears her name, is the newest member of the school of so-called blue-groove vocalists (it includes Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full of emotional intensity. Doc controls this array as a pointillist might, coloring each song with...
...tragic laments, "I was meant for you, and you were meant for me," it is refreshing to hear her in a more assertive role, moving away from broken hearts and deluded expectations. In fact, Jewel seems to enjoy it, and at times, sings with an even teasing lilt...
When a cherished ballerina leaves the stage, it's a poignant, deeply emotional moment. During Merrill's final performance, the lilt and tilt of her leaps, her supercharged energy and attack revealed the athleticism, the Americanness that has typified her dancing. She first captured master choreographer George Balanchine's interest because she could do almost anything he asked, and, of course, he asked the impossible. Merrill worked long and hard to become so perfect. I remember watching her at the School of American Ballet when she was still a child, and she delighted me with her pure, lovely line...