Word: plangent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast is exemplary. In the key role of Alexander, Dick Anthony Williams strikes a plangent note of pain. The rest of the cast is incomparably finer than this derelict play deserves. Producer Joseph Papp, at whose Vivian Beaumont Theater Black Picture Show is being presented, demonstrates again his illusory belief in the power of drama to effect social change, and his un flinching generosity to a fledgling play wright by giving him a chance to begin, learn and try again...
...murder indictment of white jazzmen. He fails to deal with the then up-and-coming black musicians, particularly John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy, who when the movie was made were far from their deathbeds. And more importantly, he precludes any sort of white imitations arising, a viewpoint which the plangent sounds of John Klemmer's tenor sax go far to dispute...
...most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes poetry out of the anguished longing of empty lives...
...plangent Southern accent coming through the telephone receiver was familiar. The political philosophy was downright unmistakable. "The Supreme Court should be abolished," Martha Mitchell told the Washington Evening Star last week after the court had rejected the arguments of Husband John Mitchell's Justice Department against desegregation by busing (see THE NATION). "We should extinguish the Supreme Court," she decreed. "We have no youth on the court, no Southerners, no women-just nine old men. I have never been so furious. Nine old men should not overturn the tradition of America...
...screen door pushed outward in a slow swing, the spring on the screen door stretching vibrantly, a plangent twang, WRIRRRAANG, which, more than any other sound, more than all those overworked katydids, crickets, tree frogs, etc., seems to evoke the heart of summer...