Word: lyrical
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...last resort, an endowment can be dipped into when there is no other way to stay in business. The Lyric Opera of Chicago has had to use its fund in just this way, draining it from $2 million to a current $3,500. The San Francisco Opera, on the other hand, is able to plow half the income from its $5 million fund back into future growth...
...audiences, Billy Joel, an excellent balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French. He isn't fluent in that language either...
...Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara, "The wish not to impute significance has rarely been stronger in lyric poetry...
...York, New York, a hell- uv-a town, The Bronx is up but the Battery's down, And people ride in a hole in the ground. - Lyric from On the Town...
...much the same way that the early Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Beatles excelled in revisions of American rhythm and blues at a similar point in their careers. The Specials flirt with social commentary and take on racial injustice in Doesn 't Make It Alright, whose straightforward lyric and fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler...