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...played-too-often "Sweets for My Sweet." L&S also encouraged the young songwriters in Broadway?s Brill Building - Gerry Goffin and Carole King ("When My Little Girl Is Smiling"), Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("On Broadway"), who were all in their late teens or early 20s -to write plangent pop ballads. These were the Broadway songs that Broadway couldn?t bring itself to write...
...that the essence of the man is there: not only the profoundly felt abstractions of military uniforms and insignia like Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, done in mourning for his young German lover killed in the trenches, but also the New Mexico paintings, the Maine seascapes and the plangent, unnerving grief of Eight Bells Folly: Memorial for Hart Crane...
...reason is a longstanding infatuation that has recently overtaken my waking hours. Just as Orpheus' lyre drew the beasts and the rocks to him, so have the plangent cries of the pedal steel guitar attracted a hundred-odd aficionados of the instrument to this the 27th annual convention of the Pedal Steel Guitar Association. There will be performances by steelers from all over the country and Canada, a seminar (my main reason for coming) and a jam session featuring three of the leading exponents of the instrument. There will also be hardware, strings, instructional materials, hard-to-find...
Here is a film about yearning--the ache for love--and the way wounded people express it. The coup of Green's script is to render complicated feelings in a mix of plangent cliches and vernacular poetry. Listen to Buddy, lovesick over Nasia's desertion, as he bares his soul. "I gave my all to her," he moans. "A plastic ring and a kiss. I mean, it's the thought that counts...
...know, maybe that was the point. Take a look at the signifiers on that screen. A handsome young man charting his course through the '60s and '70s, with all their rock'n'roll clichés. Discovering true, lifelong love to the plangent sound of guitars, he in his dark feathered hair, she in her blond feathered hair. She standing behind him, always with her camera. Could it be? Were they telling us that Tipper was Linda Eastman? And Al Gore... Paul McCartney...