Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prove he realizes the imminent destruction of this escape, Jeffreys juxtaposes the song "Graveyard Rock," which incorporates the earlier pop with Linton Kwesi Johnson spewing out reggae patter. The song sounds humorous, but the words bare a deadly seriousness...
...this joy is infectious, and, combined with their refined style often makes for superb concerts. A cappella singing is an acquired taste, but the Kroks' impeccable song selection (mostly Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers stories of love and destruction), pleasing harmonies and prissily risque patter, all in the sensuous acoustics of Sanders create an enticing package. The Kroks don't just sing, they perform, with that Preppie obsession about sex used occasionally to roaring success, and never, in my experience, to disappointment...
...standard pattern goes like this: one member steps forward and introduces the next number with a few words of smirking humour (a word the Kroks almost demand to be spelled with a "u." The American way would seem somehow inappropriate). An example of the patter from their record...
...fervent amen to Frank Trippett's Essay, "Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah" [Dec. 22]. Being an avid baseball fan, I find it excruciating to have to listen to the patter of a sports announcer who seems to choose the most awkward time of the game to give out with a rush of statistics that go back 20 years...
...YEOMEN OF THE GUARD is a Gilbert and Sullivan curveball. It skips along in familiar G & S style: the mistaken identities, the thwarted romances, the brutally clever patter, all set to a jolly, stirring score. Yet throughout the operetta there runs an uncharacteristic current of grandeur and sobriety--just when the final scene seems to be resolving itself with happy Gilbertian expedience, the leading character staggers onto the stage and dies a prolonged, hideous death...