Word: nasality
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HAMLET. Some actors merely occupy the stage, but Nicol Williamson rules it. His nasal voice has the sting of an adder; his furrowed brow is a topography of inconsolable anguish. His Hamlet is a seismogram of a soul in shock. It is a Hamlet of spleen and sorrow, of fire and ice, of bantering sensuality, withering sarcasm and soaring intelligence. Williamson cuts through the music of the Shakespearean line to the marrow of its meaning. He spares no contempt for the perfidious king who killed his father, but he saves his rage for the unfeeling gods who, in all true...
HAMLET. Some actors merely occupy space; Nicol Williamson rules the stage. His nasal voice has the sting of an adder; his furrowed brow is a topography of inconsolable anguish. His Hamlet is a seismogram of a soul in shock. Here is a Hamlet of spleen and sorrow, of fire and ice, of bantering sensuality, withering sarcasm and soaring intelligence. He cuts through the music of the Shakespearean line to the marrow of its meaning. He spares the perfidious king who killed his father no contempt, but he saves his rage for the unfeeling gods who, in all true tragedy, make...
...FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (A & M) are musical siblings of The Byrds, to which two of the founding Burritos (Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman) once belonged. Like The Byrds, the Brothers favor a nasal country style of folk-rock, with twanging, Nashville-style guitar picking and close-knit, churchy harmonies. They bounce along with sardonic glee in an ode to draft dodging called My Uncle, and commemorate the sorrows of unrequited love in a mock-dour lament, Juanita...
...genres unfolds in parodies, pastiches, takeoffs and put-ons. The boys even spoof themselves. George Harrison's Savoy Truffle contains a cross reference to Lennon and Mc Cartney's Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. In Rocky Raccoon, Paul McCartney imitates successfully and amusingly the nasal delivery of Bob Dylan. The lyric...
...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...