Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHATEVER Shaw's motives, The Man of Destiny combines a lot of plain fun with an attack directed equally at self-willed, Nietzchian types and the principled English. It's about Napoleon right at the period of his life when his military ventures against Austria were winning him acclaim back home. The setting is a small Italian inn, and Bonaparte has just won the battle of Lodi. He's awaiting more information both from the field and from Paris and at the start, anyway, the play has potential for getting very serious. It is only when his courier walks...
Sister Cotter will be looking ahead to the next game, "The less said about the last one, the better. It was just plain embarrassing...
...woman who haunts the singing with an urban, Merry-Clayton-in-Gimme-Shelter howl. In the background bobs an electric-haired bass player. On the right stands Vassar Clements, ramrod straight, hair furled and molded back, holding up the fiddle military-high. And in the center Betts, with his plain calico voice and his wondrous guitar, pulling the American Music Show together...
...thing, Gregg's voice was gone, replaced by Betts's plain, unpretentious vocal that weaved in and out of songs so that you hardly noticed the transitions--a bluegrass voice, nondescript. The music itself was still rock--as up-tempo as ever, built around solos; more lyrical and melodic, but essentially structured in the same way. Yet the tone is utterly different--after listening to Betts for a while, even though one's usual appetite for complexity and energy is what's responding, it's impossible to endure the old relentless rock--it sounds fatiguing, heavy...
...would have been hard for a man of Ford's plain dimensions to fail in Japan and Korea, where his mission was one of apology and renewing affection (it will take months to get the true measure of Vladivostok). But even on this guided tour, there was the vaguely uncomfortable feeling all along the trail that the man was doing the right thing at the wrong time. Not for Japan, not for Korea, not even for the Soviet Union, but for the United States of America...