Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This simple lyric, laminated to a catching tune, is on Billboard's list of the "Hot 100" singles, comfortably ahead of Tell Me Baby and catching up with Young and in Love. What it is doing in that league is anybody's guess. Its theme is not love, but development housing...
...phrase that prods is ticky tacky. This is the essence of the lyric, and it has multiplied virally all over the country. A Harvard professor at a recent conference struck a blow at "students made out of ticky tacky." Actress Rita Gam used the words ticky tacky at least 100 times at a Manhattan dinner party last week. A realty firm in Berkeley has a blurb claiming that it sells "distinguished houses, not ticky tacky." After hearing the song, a professor at the University of Miami said: "I've been lecturing my classes about middleclass conformity for a whole...
...sings I Could Have Danced All Night in Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady, the voice on the sound track won't be Audrey's. It belongs to Marni Nixon, the ghostess with the mostest. A girl with a rubber range, Marni is a redheaded, blue-eyed lyric soprano who can slip into a contralto and sing in the accents of any unmusical star. She was also the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, of Deborah Kerr in The King and I, of Janet Leigh in Pepe...
Lavrovsky sees in his great pupil "a body of very beautiful and tender and expressive lines" and a soul of "great content." Beyond that, he has to struggle to praise her enough. "She is a lyric-dramatic dancer," he says, searching for words. "When I speak of lyric-dramatic, I soften the contours of lyric by adding dramatic and soften the contours of dramatic by adding lyric. But in this instance I wouldn't want them softened...
...tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would not or could not meet the demands and responsibilities of age. Dylan...