Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience at every performance, but more nights than not, a rare spark seemed to pass between Fleisher and his listeners. It was not the kind of spark that stemmed from mere dramatics or showmanship. What he had was the kind of flame that was ignited by rubbing the smallest phrase just so, and then building from there. "It was like making a happening," he recalls. "When the stars were right, I could kind of get out of myself and into something mysterious and wondrous and exciting." Fleisher is still hoping to achieve such moments at the keyboard again. With great...
...obvious swipe at the Nixon Administration, Lindsay dismissed the catch phrase "strict construction" and the tough talk of anticrime rhetoric. "No responsible lawyer or politician can abandon the fight to make law-and-order the rule of law that works, instead of a code word that doesn't work," said Lindsay. In his view, politicians and lawyers have patently failed to cope with such practical issues as whether people feel free to walk to a city newsstand after dark, whether police apprehend criminals, whether courts actually convict the guilty, and whether correctional systems really rehabilitate...
...crowds roar "Sieg Heil!" Then Spiro Agnew denounces effete snobs-and the band plays Stars and Stripes Forever. It is as devastating as a knee in the groin. Children shrill the Gypsy Song, break into a tapdance and a pianist plays an ornate set of embellishments on the first phrase of the Habañera; he knows all the tricks but cannot remember the melody. The Card Song is swallowed by a monstrous Dies Irae, and everything ignites into a Moog-synthesized musical holocaust. The montage of electronic sound forms a requiem on the word "love," with tunes and characters...
Outasite: terrific. (In Paris, the phrase is loin...
...youthquake" is likely to roll on even if the Viet Nam War ends tomorrow. In Jacques Barzun's phrase, the young are battling "the whole of modern life"?what they regard as meaningless work, abuse of the environment, the dwindling opportunities for adolescent self-definition at a time when puberty arrives earlier than ever. In recent testimony before Congress, France's Journalist-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber argued that the revolt of the young is aimed at the "excesses of economic competition" and cannot be "eradicated by the elders in a fit of blind rage." Businessmen themselves, he said...