Word: lyricizing
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...sets then? How did promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should it be left to Gore to express moral disapproval of a group calling itself Dead Kennedys (sample lyric: "I kill children, I love to see them...
...avoid sponsoring programs that the group finds objectionable. One of Rakolta's first targets was Married . . . With Children, a racy prime-time sitcom. Parents' Music Resource Center, meanwhile, has successfully pressured the Recording Industry Association of America to create a rating system that alerts parents to sexually explicit lyrics. Warning labels are now printed on record jackets. The group also provides printed lyric sheets and encourages parents to complain to radio and TV stations about raunchy and violent programming...
...narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Director Claude Purdy's backyard realism suits August Wilson's lyric text, at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Director Claude Purdy's backyard realism suits August Wilson's lyric text, at the Los Angeles Theater Center...