Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also seems unnecessary--because Sellon has little to apologize for when it comes to the musical part of the show. Sellon is a fine lyricist and many of his songs contain nice twists and subtle turns of phrase. Even better is Frederick O. Freyer's music, which is the finest part of the show Freyer has managed to pull off a 40s sound which is not simply copied. You might hear a little Basic one in a while, and some of the harmonies might remind you a bit of some of the classics from that period--but Freyer uses these...
...hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning to the phrase "heavy dragoon...
...William Hamilton made a solitary exit from Parliament after another of his frequent excoriations of the extravagant royals, Conservative M.P. Geoffrey Finsberg scoffed, "Those who share Mr. Hamilton's view will doubtless have left the chamber with him." What Hamilton wants is a wedding-or, in his phrase, "jamboree"-financed by the families of the bride and groom, "both exceedingly wealthy." In a rational debate, Hamilton might be hard to argue down. But this is a question of spirit, not logic. There is nothing at all rational about a royal wedding, which is part of its charm...
...Reagan had requested. At week's end Secretary of State Alexander Haig took off, on schedule, for a trip to the Middle East, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger left for defense consultations with Western European allies. Altogether, the week's official activity appeared to justify the phrase that Reagan's aides were using while the President was still in the recovery room: "Business as usual...
...artists he spoke for) meant man as political creature, man seen in his manifest social relations-not the decorative peasants of Boucher or the squalid, undifferentiated social lump the French bourgeois imagined the proletariat to be. The task of realism was therefore to record, in Weisberg's phrase, "human needs and social symptoms" -contemporary life, arts, tensions, suffering...