Word: oded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening song is "Sing Happy," but none of the cast looks happy. This inauspiciousness yields to an improving humor, however, with "Where Was I When They Passed Out Luck" from Minnie's Boys, a play based on the Marx Brothers. "My City," a throbbingly evil, beautifully choreographed ode to New York City and Stephen Hayes's terrific performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Everybody Says Don't," also succeed in capturing the audience...
...score by Kander and Ebb is staunchly melodic; professionalism runs in this pair's musical bloodstream. Hollywood, California is a saucy spoof of the West Coast gossip queens, City Lights is a dithyrambic salute to New York, and My Own Space is a pensive, meditative ode to the beauty of possessing one's territorial declarative. Halston's costumes blaze like sun-kindled autumn leaves, and the dance team of three women and four men are, collectively, a card hand of sev en aces. One member of the chorus, Roger Minami, provides ebullient comic relief in Arthur...
...been said that Makavejev's politics as reflected in his films are 50 per cent Groucho and 50 per cent Karl Marx. The works combine political and artistic issues and deal quite directly with them. After shooting his "W/R Mysteries of the Organism," an ode to Wilhelm Reich, he observed, "politics are for those whose orgasm is incomplete." Yet his politics have had no small effect on his life's work, he says, some of the main topics he discusses with his colleagues are "revolutionary politics and problems of power in the world." From...
...government's deliberations were shrouded in hermetic secrecy. West German morale plummeted?particularly after news arrived of Pilot Schumann's death. But then came Mogadishu. Radio stations interrupted regular programming and punctuated coverage of the rescue and the return of the hostages with the stirring strains of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Newspapers hit the streets with extras and thousands of copies were given away. Declared one television commentator: "It feels good to be a German today." When the freed hostages and victorious commandos returned to Germany, they received a heroes' welcome?complete with brass bands...
...from protest to love, Paxton shows more of his soft side. At his most tender in "You're So Beautiful," Paxton calls his wife, "the loveliest women a man ever knew." Paxton runs the risk of using enough saccharine to kill a tubful of Canadian rats, but this sentimental ode at least provides a suitable contrast to Paxton's political commentary. "There Goes the Mountain," Paxton's plea for preservation of nature, also combines sweet and bitter in just the right proportions. Steve Goodman harmonizes as Paxton personifies the mountain, the "avalanche-maker, heaven's caretaker." Paxton stimulates nostalgia...