Word: lyricizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Millions of TV viewers would recognize this bouncy ballad, sung in the buttercup-bright tones of Nashville's Dottie West, as the music for the current Coca-Cola commercial. A month ago, with a few alterations in the lyric, it also was released as Dottie West's latest RCA recording. As such, it is a sign of a growing trend in the country music field to convert jingles into singles. Country music is not only becoming unabashedly commercial, as purists frequently complain; now commercials are becoming country music...
...feel Chicago's texture. Characteristically, he installed his office in an old warehouse with a greenery-filled atrium and a glass-roofed elevator-"so you can look at the clouds." His own designs, from Washington's Arena Stage theater to the U.S. embassy in Ghana, are similarly lyric, and they always respect their architectural context. In his Walton Apartments in Chicago, for example, he used bay windows to echo those used by the city's great turn-of-the-century architects: Daniel Burnham, John Root, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Says Weese: "I would rather match...
...remarkable feat of endurance. In white suit and panama, he unifies the performance completely, whether in recitatives of improvised rhythm chanted to the plink of a single piano or sitting silently in a canvas chair as an observer. Gone are the Pears-shaped tones of the young lyric tenor. In their place now emerge dramatic powers of characterization. As a noted German author captivated by a winsome Polish boy in Venice, Pears' body seems literally to disintegrate with frustration...
...Watergate dart board, or brood over a Watergate jigsaw puzzle, or even write their friends on Watergate stationery. Or they can listen to a recording of the first (but undoubtedly not the last) country-and-western Watergate ballad, At the Watergate (The Truth Come Pouriri Out). Sample lyric: "If you're wonderin' why they wouldn't blow the whistle, it's no mystery/ Lots of cash and lots of hints of Executive clemency...
...commitment, yet at the screenings of his films that accompanied the O Lucky Man! premiere, two stood out above the rest: The White Bus, a 1966 short film about a woman who takes a bus tour of her home town (a film containing only vague social comment), and the lyric 1967 short, The Singing Lesson, in which Polish songs accompany a masterfully planned, plotless set of views of Warsaw. The two shorts are hardly ever shown to the public yet they, not the "epic" O Lucky Man!, represent Lindsay Anderson at his best...