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Honeysuckle Rose takes its cue from the plangent homilies of country music. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a moderately successful singer with a strong, loving wife (Dyan Cannon), an adoring son (Joey Floyd) and-shift to a minor key here-an ambitious girl guitarist (Amy Irving) who snakes her way into Buck's band and bed. Once she and Buck become lovers, the dramatic tension slackens. Seven decades of movie romance have prepared the audience for a climactic reconciliation of Buck and his wife. And since Amy Irving acts as if she bought her clothes and her accent at Bloomingdale...
...15th season, the Waverly consists of six singers and four instrumentalists. They take the stage in modified period costume, the men in loose peasant blouses, the women in simple long dresses. Their performing delightfully blends the contrasting austerity and amiability of early music. Over the drone of string tones, plangent woodwinds pipe and trill, punctuated occasionally by bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee...
Falwell enjoys taking big risks, like starting up a new college from scratch in less than a year, as he did with Liberty Baptist College, begun in 1971. Now Falwell is betting that his views, values and chauvinist spirit will strike a plangent chord in the hearts of millions of conservative Protestants, many of whom have thus far been politically apathetic...
...members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...tense exchanges that result run to repetitive caricature, like mother-in-law jokes. "I felt like walking off and saying, 'Go ahead. Play the whole court.' " "My husband's favorite words are 'Shut up and hit the ball.' " Frosty silences can be plangent too. Carl Rowan remembers that when he used to play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick...