Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy's Tune," Browne is so wrapped up in his message that he fails to focus his lyrics. The track examines his distant relationship with his own father, but Browne appears to be caught in a pool of quicksand--the more he tries to convey emotion, the more bogged down he becomes. When he writes that he's "searching for truth and bound for glory," he sounds like he's composing a national anthem. Though the cut begins on this solemn note, he further loses credibility as he switches to an up-beat jazz tempo accompanied by bleating horns...
...important thing in your forays is initiative. Harvard Square is potential quicksand--it's all too easy to get stuck in the belief that there's actually something going on there, when in fact it's just a place where a lot of people are trying to sell you things. Not to be inhospitable, but get out, as often as you can and for as long...
...blond American hero with a jaw like a hammock (Doug McClure), a blonde British heroine (Susan Penhaligon) and a whole bunch of soldiers, most of whom are nice guys. This happy crew gets mixed up with U-boats, torpedoings, fistfights, a mutiny, icebergs, lost civilizations, dinosaurs, pterodactyls, swamps, jungle, quicksand, strange-looking creatures who are in the process of evolving into Man As We Now Know Him, a mysterious river, a note in a bottle, and no love stuff. Instant second childhood is guaranteed in less than 90 minutes...
...result, not unexpectedly, is a gap in the middle of the soccer program. "The whole thing is so discontinuous," complained assistant varsity coach Rick Scott last week about the lack of a program to bring freshman players up to the level of varsity soccer. "Junior varsity is like quicksand," Vinnie Steponaitis, former manager of the team, said...
...like most good comedies it's also serious and strong. Michael Weller wrote it about the people he shared a house with during his senior year at Brandeis (that was 1964-65), people he compares in a program note to walkers across a desert strewn with unmarked patches of quicksand which they can only avoid by signaling to one another in curious and incomprehensible ways. ("On the other hand," he adds, "it's just this old play with a few technical problems but basically straightforward enough and with some good chuckles along the way.") At the New Theater the play...