Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stunningly. Steve Nieve puts some jolly tinkling all over the album, but I can't help feeling that he's a bit of a middlebrow even as he's sending up middlebrow music. That's okay; I'm a bit of a middlebrow myself, and Elvis loves Cole Porter and Burt Bacharach. So "You'll Never Be a Man" comes out a dandy pop tune, Elvis blithely propositioning a poor woman who's "under the table with a chemical snake." (People think they're tough in this world, but they're jellybeans.) "Pretty Words" ("don't mean much anymore/I...
...heading for a score. That Reagan was proposing to undo a lot of Johnson's "too great society" was another of the wonderful ironies of this risky moment in U.S. affairs. "Reagan is not the first person to talk this way," points out Harvard's Roger Porter, who worked in Gerald Ford's White House, "but Reagan is the first President to act this way." Reagan has burst upon the academic reveries of the historians and political scientists as something-at last-real. He is no longer celluloid. "There is a logic to his boldness," says Porter...
...Roger Porter, assistant professor of Public Policy, will join Eizenstat in leading the mini-course, which will focus on case studies from the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. Eizenstat has harshly criticized President Reagan's plans to dismantle many of the domestic programs established under Carter, calling the Republican's proposals "a fundamentally incorrect policy that redistributes income upwards...
...Porter's "Let's Do It", however, does work as well as it did in concert, probably because the song lives (and dies) by its inventive lyrics, e.g. "Catherine Deneuve with her Chanel does it and the fragrance really lingers/Colonel Sanders with his chicken does it, and then, he licks his fingers." Musically, both the live and to a lesser extent, the studio versions of the songs suffer from fairly primitive mixings, and the sound is frequently muddy. The Kroks draw inspiration, not to mention an occasional arrangement, from Manhattan Transfer, but can't match the polish or studio values...
...this joy is infectious, and, combined with their refined style often makes for superb concerts. A cappella singing is an acquired taste, but the Kroks' impeccable song selection (mostly Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers stories of love and destruction), pleasing harmonies and prissily risque patter, all in the sensuous acoustics of Sanders create an enticing package. The Kroks don't just sing, they perform, with that Preppie obsession about sex used occasionally to roaring success, and never, in my experience, to disappointment...