Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas...
The soup, redolent of the shtetlach of Thomas' Jewish forebears, speaks for itself. The melody, from Anton Bruckner's sixth symphony, needs no elaboration either, but Thomas can no more resist parsing a composer's score than he can eclipse the twinkle in his brown eyes.
"Can you fight 24 hours, Japanese businessman?" The satirical question, posed by a commercial jingle now running on Japanese television, has struck a chord in that workaholic society. The mock-martial melody promotes Regain, a caffeine-and-vitamin beverage billed as a pick-me-up for weary workers. Sales of...
If winning were everything, God Bless America might carry the day. Anyone can belt out a respectable version. America, the Beautiful is not much challenge either. But Americans have been gamely trying to master The Star- Spangled Banner without quite overcoming it for 175 years. In a world that changes...
But the novel is only marginally about dopers and spoilsport law-enforcement types. The showdown looming in Vineland County serves as the melody for a series of dazzling riffs on the 1970s and early '80s. It comes as a surprise to realize that these generations are the lost ones in...