Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lyrics are instructive in an ironic way. They prove that good politics does not necessarily equal good music. What Ono hasn't learned is that an honest verbal expression of self does not constitute art unless the writer is honestly artistic. The words must capture a mood, an image, an idea with feeling to which others may grab hold to drift along with the song. How can you get excited about a lyric like...
...Saudi ambassador's wife, who had insisted on rejoining her husband after their children were safe. The terrorists demanded safe air passage for themselves and their hostages to an unknown destination, but the Sudanese refused to provide a plane. They no longer seemed to be in a bargaining mood, and ordered the killers to surrender...
...inconspicuous hoarding. Great energy is suspect here. It looks vulgar to the English eye. England has the enormous psychological problem of having 1,000 years of history behind it. The question is: What is there left to do? The past here has become so present that the great mood is looking back-sometimes it seems as if there is nothing on television every night but war films, all looking back, at any war-the Boer...
...wife to see The Mousetrap, which had opened in 1952. He had finally managed to get some tickets -she would be glad to see it before it closed. Afterward they would go to that new American restaurant in Soho-it was said to be splendidly successful in recapturing the mood of old England. Life could be worse...
Still and all, the mood of the evening is impeccably sustained and, rather surprisingly, it is not so much jolly and summery as triste and autumnal. It is as if these world-weary beings had sated their aristocratic tastes on almost every experience except the simplest of joys. Designer Boris Aaronson's nobly brooding setting of towering white birch trees seems almost like a comment on the frivolity and emptiness of the characters' lives...