Word: overtness
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...purposeful echoes of earlier plays: descendants of two characters from Gem of the Ocean (set in 1904) are on hand, as is a character from Wilson's 1960s play Two Trains Running; and Aunt Ester's home is the last one marked for demolition. The social message is more overt than most in Wilson's canon: the play is about the "failure of the black middle class," he says, "who failed to return their expertise, participation and resources back to the community." Yet the last chapter of this 10-part journey full of tears and tragedy ends with an affirmation...
...second encore is the new encore, after all). The finale was begun with a cover of “Inside of You,” by the similarly outlandish countryish troubadour named Tom Jans. The song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover with a beautiful, shuffling version of pre-bluegrass classic “Happy In Prison,” Oldham and Sweeney singing...
...appeal is that it demands little of participants, other than wearing green and drinking; there are none of the expectations associated with Valentine’s Day, none of the vaguely patriotic obligations that cling to the Fourth of July, none of the gift-buying, and little of the overt religious trappings of Christmas...
Kaabour briefly telephoned into the HFA at the end of the screening, to issue an apology for not being present and field a few questions. The director, speaking without overt anger, simply commented on the irony that “the paranoia that inspired the making of the film prevented [me] from coming tonight...
...artistic discourse, if you like—and I don’t see how your meta-claim that Blur was both aware of and subverting the ironic ethos of ’90s grunge makes that band any more effective. Introspection doesn’t have to be overt; not everybody can (or should) be Thom Yorke, and just because “Song 2” is an ironic song about irony doesn’t mean that Blur is any more interested in analyzing its place in pop music history than Oasis. It also doesn?...