Word: pleasingness
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ANDREW GOLD (Asylum; $6.98). From the opening cut, That's Why I Love You, through nine more original songs, Gold's fresh melodic imagination never wavers. His baritone is light and pleasing. Like Stevie Wonder, he sometimes operates as a one-man band. On Love Hurts,
For Pezzettino (Pantheon; $4.95), Leo Lionni manages a feat of Klee: his collages and swirls of paint evoke the sensations of childhood. Pezzettino is a minuscule symbol, and all his friends are large, adventurous ones-until the boy sails off to the isle of Wham. The result is a pleasing...
Thursday night 1000 Yale students marched behind the Yale band through the old campus for a pep rally. Carmen Cozza, the Eli coach, delivered a crowd-pleasing victory speech. (Can you imagine Joe Restic in a situation like that?) Needless to say, the pep rally culminated with a burning of...
But Whitlam, a crowd-pleasing orator, is at his best in a fight, and in recent weeks he has been drawing his largest audiences in years. No Australian government has been subjected "to such utter cussedness and harassment," he said. If Whitlam is not inclined to duck the present face...
There aren't any conventionally offensive words in Giovanni's new collection of poetry, The Women and the Men. The women she writes about are maternal, stifled, mistreated. And the men--well, she doesn't deal with men as individuals but as qualities. She likes the poetic reverberations of lions...