Word: lizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going home with the lizard...
...yellow. He tells Baby Love, "Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust...
...regularly turns up in local Gilbert and Sullivan productions, playing the modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance, Ko-ko in The Mikado and Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guards. Asked to aid a local fund raiser, Kahn happily swapped his tweedy academic threads for the lounge-lizard's black tie. "It was more a benefit for me," says he. "I'd give up my career to sing the role of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music." So, decked out in a tux that probably cost less than one of Wayne Newton's cuff links...
...late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song. The most unstable interval in music, the tritone, stalks the cycle relentlessly, a musical metaphor...
...attributed to Peter MacNicol's peanut butter-on-milquetoast portrayal of the would-be hero. Tireless in an irritating way, MacNicol inspires little interest in his quest; he never seems the least bit ambivalent about clambering down into murky caves and facing off against the 50-foot lizard who has just torched the whole kingdom with a few sneezes. As a lover, he is tepid at best, remaining oblivious even when his ladyfriend mentions at one point that she's still a virgin, and the dragon only eats virgins, and isn't there something they could do about that...