Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep coming back to Shakespeare? The hard truth is that most modern theatergoers can fully grasp only a fraction of his dense Elizabethan dialogue. Critics, moreover, seem intent on making the experience even more intimidating: they become stern schoolmasters when judging those who dare tackle the iambic pentameter. Alec Baldwin's brawny, quite watchable Macbeth at New York City's Public Theatre last winter drew testy reviews. Still the show was a sellout...
...with monuments or cave-drawings. They have been yanked from their homes and families to conduct a miserable campaign against the Mameluke Dynasty, marching around the desert with their camels and cannons, blowing the face off an ancient sphinx when there's nothing else to do. (And you thought modern-day French were rude...
About three years ago, amid the hype over the nouveau punk radio revolution, Rancid blasted onto the mainstream modern rock scene with ...And Out Come the Wolves, a pop powerhouse that provided a Clash-esque revitalization of the rock airwaves. The rough-around-the-edges quartet wooed listeners and fans alike with its brash musicianship while roping in the critics despite the band's inescapable unoriginality. No matter how much Rancid sounded like the punks of old, though, the band undeniably impressed the masses with its raw street-rock energy and perspective. As Green Day resurrected the three-chord...
...Exemplifying the amazing lines exhibited throughout Life Won't Wait, crooning, "have you ever been looked at by your past and it will never let you go." You get the impression that the members of Rancid weren't perfectly aware of what they were getting into by releasing the modern rock smashes "Salvation," "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho." Playing into the system isn't a respectable gesture in theunderground punk scene where the band was born:"Backslide" is the retrospective self-analysis inRancidspeak to explain the misgivings away...
...result is a shrewd portrait, sly, casual yet palpably authentic, of the principal ways members of any minority try to respond to an uncomprehending world. Each learns something useful from the other, and we, incidentally, learn something believable and warming about modern Native life and manners. Smoke Signals could be more complex and compelling narratively, but there's a sweet freshness in its voice that's worth heeding...