Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others who persevered, there were odd jobs to be found-some of them very odd...
...their superstardom well. None of your dissipated entourages, nine inch platforms, catered backstage parties, washed out groupies. Nossir. These are jus' folks. Who'd know that these very same Allman Brothers helped draw 600,000 hippies to a race track for a weekend of myth recreation? Or think it odd that the band hadn't achieved said superstardom until two members, one an original brother, had met violent deaths in similar circumstances, at locations within blocks of each other? You can't tell me we're not all fascinated by death...
...nosedive from a respectable second echelon bluesman to a very low grade musical puppet? Didn't think so. And critics have taken a dim view of his $10 three-record live album )little of which I've heard, but I can't say much for the prospect of 90 odd minutes of bad gospel rock.) Well, the judgment seems a little harsh now, and I'm not trying to kick him while he's down. It's just that his kind of music came, but, more importantly, it went. I know that, why doesn't he? At any rate, come...
...Odd, then, that the most direct attempt at some sort of viable context should fail so miserably. "The Great Deception" is simply a bad song, possibly Morrison's first ever. It's lyrics are banal, its arrangement ordinary, pleading in even its title to recall just the slightest hint of The Platters. No one should be forced to cope with lyrics like...
...enthusiasm that has greeted these latest adventures of Mr. Hulot appears to be the product of critical wistfulness. Tati is the last in a once great tradition of pantomimic screen comedians. Out of a desire to keep that tradition alive, writers seize on the odd, amusing bits in his films, overpraising them while ignoring Tati-Hulot's glaring inadequacies...