Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his earliest works, originating with the long, personal lamentations that characterized Piano Man to his recent conglomeration of more commercially oriented compositions on The Stranger, Joel has filled his songs with a rebellious spirit, a "New York state of mind," and the discontent of youthful passions, all of which energize his musical efforts...
...judgement of another age. Offered wholeheartedly, a classical performance works on us with the poignant clarity of emotional truth; done poorly, it ranges from the banal to the ridiculous. The problem is one of authenticity, and has less to do with execution of movement than with a state of mind...
...superbly-integrated work of art in its own right, a choreographic realization of the mood of lyric poetry. Even the form is that of lyric: a sequence of expressive meditations, a personal dream-world made vivid in the ephemeral moment. Like the shapes in a dreaming mind, the dancers echo a single identity. All save the one man are dressed exactly alike in flowering tulle, and their interaction is a matter of motion, not of differing feelings. No sexual tension develops in the male-female pas de deux...
Keeping this in mind, I now turn to Exhibit A, an anonymous letter with a Philadelphia postmark that reached the Sports Cube today. It read simply...
...craft and her career mark her as a seasoned, matured performer, yet the enthusiasm, the crazy optimism of the naive neophyte surface constantly. By turns exuberant and restrained, she is sentimental and selfless at the same time. And a new one-word impression forms in the interviewer's mind: enigmatic...