Word: louder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't give a detailed explanation of what Harvard would do to help those who were oppressed, aside from hanging on to its stock in Gulf. Instead, presumably on the theory that actions speak louder than words, he had Harvard ask Gulf to release some statistics. Gulf...
...band grew louder and Al became more sentimental as the night progressed. All the grandmothers sitting nearby got up and began dancing the hully-gully. As he stared out over the dance floor, Al pulled out his wallet and began showing family pictures...
...caricature, too easily contemptible. The point about these people, even as they stand up for solo absolution speeches--the I-take-no-responsibility echos of collective murder--is that they're supposed to be nice middleclass folks. Maybe the moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over the simpler, symbolic function of the leering village idiot...
Just a little bit louder...
This band is louder. And possibly less assuming. The first group had its self-indulgences--Purim and Airto occasionally turned the band into an immensely talented Brasil '66. (And this may be what I mean by Latin influences). The outfit that showed up at Sanders has an album, Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy, and all those Mahavishnu comparisons. But it wasn't the same. This band is subdued, even sedate. One t-shirt. No dashikis. Corea himself is dressed in late period St. Grottlesex. Solid introductions. Then seven-eight fingersnaps and "Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy" seems half over. "Hymn...