Word: raunched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Road?, which lampoons raunch-rock, reads in full...
Even so, Staircase is a superior example of its genre. Much of its impact comes from Director Mulligan's eye for setting and atmosphere. His Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera, and his neighborhood is a horrifyingly typical New York slum street. His supporting cast, notably Sorrell Booke as the exasperated principal and Florence Stanley as a guidance counselor in love with instant evaluation, is ideal. So is Fred Karlin's musical score, in its ironic blending of baroque blandness and jungle throb...
There is a considerable difference, however, between the coleopteran flight of these four English boys and the phenomenon of Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra in his swooner phase. Presley made his pelvis central to his act, and the screams of his admirers were straight from the raunch. Sinatra's Adam's appie bobbed in Morse code, and no lass misread the message...
Admissions policies have radically changed the nature of the band as well as its size, and although the hard-drinking, party-loving 'raunch' group hates to admit it, director Walker, with his heavy emphasis on music, even to the occasional exclusion of fun, is only leading the band in directions it would follow sooner or later anyway. In Walker's estimation, there are three types of personalities in the band today: the raunch man, the man out for a good time but also anxious to work musically, and the pure musician. Because of the character of band activities, the latter...
...band as a whole, tend to be suspicious, fearing that Walker might eventually divert all the energy of the band away from football. Not so, says Walker, who feels that the more serious musicians are leaving the football band anyway and that their presence only inhibits the raunch group...