Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Course, there were the minor inconveniences--having to walk three-quarters of a mile to the Yard, for one. Our rooms have no molding or boards to hang things from...
...Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...
Germinal is a minor work on a huge canvas...
Johannes Brahms' String Quartet in c minor, Opus 51, No. 1, was the final and most substantial piece on the program. Unfortunately, this work sounded the least polished of all that the Quartet performed. In the first movement, "Allegro," where the texture is quite thick, the balance was not effective, the notes of the accompanying voices excessively labored and the melody not sufficiently passionate. Here also the contrasting characters displayed by the different instruments detrimentally affected the Quartet's performance; while in most places these variations added interest, the dryness of the violist's sound in the Brahms grated...
...that compiles all of these early works, there is now one available on their own Grand Royal Records, aptly titled Some Old Bullshit. As my roommate explained, "If you don't already have this stuff, you don't need it." Man, is it bad! I like good hardcore, like Minor Threat or Negative Approach, but these guys sucked. It sounds like they were having fun, but it's no fun to listen to. The last song, "Cookypuss," shows their shift towards rap: it features sampled horn and drumbeat, and has a lot of voice over crank calls to Carvel...