Word: lyrical
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About the group's best rock number, intriguingly titled Saptapper, Moses, says. "A saptapper is someone who latches on to you. And when it's a girl, well, you know what that can do...." and quotes his own lyric...
...their early music had exuberance and an occasional oasis of unexpected harmony, but otherwise blended monotonously into the parched badlands of rock. I Want to Hold Your Hand, the Beatles' biggest hit single-it has sold 5,000,000 copies since 1963-was a cliché boy-girl lyric...
Baring-Gould, who was a promotion writer at Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...
...Gutman proposed the score as leavening for Newport's predominantly romantic fare. It proved a charming, simple musical translation of Wilde's fable, a transparently written score for a vocal ensemble of children and grownups whose occasional peppery dissonances failed to diminish the limpid simplicity of its lyric lines. Like many of Williamson's works, it suggested the composer's varied background...
...Murray Head is a lot sexier. And Miss Mills, though she doesn't look terribly different from the way she did when she was 14, is sexiest of all. But the best part of the Boulting Brothers' movie is the Cockney accent--soft, slurred, turning every remark into a lyric. Other than that, it's sedate. Hayley Mills' transition into womanhood has yet to be indicated on the screen, no matter what the publicity says. Take the whole family...