Word: ragas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What sets Morris apart from most of his contemporaries is his extraordinary musicality. He seems open to a huge variety of styles--raga, rock, Poulenc, with perhaps a special affinity for such musical architects of the baroque as Vivaldi and Handel. Morris can find the dance in the music. Like Balanchine, he can hear a piece whole and render a fresh visualization of it instead of transcribing it as a pattern or making it serve as an organizing element for arbitrary action. In Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller...
...staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that...
...this statement. Does the reviewer mean to imply that it would be disgusting for two men to knowingly fall in love with another man? And one comment: If so, I find it highly unprofessonal and in poor taste for personal judgement to find its way into journalism. Michelle Raga...
...less likely a sex star has emerged since Miss Piggy. This rodeo raga muffin-with his Indian headbands, his long braided hair, a diamond stud in his left earlobe and a face as seamed and leathery as a football left out in the Texas sun-looks like the last of the red hot Muppets. No matter: the camera loves Willie Nelson. In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two from Robert Redford. Now Nelson has been fitted for a sin-and-suffer role...