Word: moods
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...parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard Time," a sort of Blackboard Jungle in reverse, with the students--both hoodlums and teacher's pets--successfully defying a whitehabited singing...
Unfortunately, the revue format of Bicentennial Follies--except for parts near the very beginning and at the end, the show consists entirely of 13 songs--prevents the character development necessary for tragedy in a classical sense. Nevertheless, when the curtain falls, a mood of genuine pathos prevails; for if individual tragedy can only be hinted at, the spiritual poverty that afflicts would-be adherents to the bicentennial myth has been made abundantly clear...
What remains confused, however, is the underlying rationale for the show's abrupt shifts in mood, which are matched only by the noisiness of the set changes. To be sure, Bicentennial Follies is fun to watch; it's certainly possible to enjoy lilting voices and mildly amusing comic vignettes without insisting on dramatic coherence. If Bicentennial Follies gets good mileage out of the exposure and inversion of American values, it also illustrates the inversion of one good old American saying: for here is one case, at least, where the sum of the parts is infinitely greater than the whole...
Astride the Gap. The positive mood continued during the Secretary's 24-hour stopover in Peru, whose left-leaning military government espouses what it describes as "revolutionary socialist nationalism." Kissinger conferred for nearly an hour with Military Junta President General Francisco Morales Bermudez, gave a luncheon at the U.S. embassy, and attended a dinner in his honor at the Palacio Torre Tagle in Lima. His basic message: the U.S. does not object to Peru's pro-Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised...
...that less than two weeks ago more than 40 per cent of those eligible to vote in the primary today were still undecided about who to pick. The poll is just one of several showing an unusually large percentage of uncommitted voters, and it's indicative of a certain mood in the primary that may set the tone of the race right up until the national conventions this summer: the presidential contenders are just gushing with rhetoric, they move like reeds in the wind, swaying from week to week--and in some cases, from hour to hour--without any firm...