Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ravel's mistakes were often egregious. He allowed himself to be caught up in extravagant romanticism, in over-orchestrating, in lush overstatement where simple instrumentation would have sufficed. But, like the little girl in the Mother Goose rhyme, when he was good, he was very, very good...
...unforced, and in itself worth hearing. The actor has to infuse his couples with a skillful variation of tone and inflection to bring this off. When he is successful, the dialogue attains the bellylaugh level and is made all the more funny with the extra wallop of an unexpected rhyme. When he falls, the dialogue lapses into dry monotony which is about as pleasurable to the audience as chewing on sand...
...What was the name Shirley Ellis didn't dare rhyme in "The Name Game...
...collection of 62 stories written between 1962 and 1970 that fit without the slightest crowding into a 174 page book. The pieces range in length from a few pages to several lines, tiny Brautiganisms that haven't made it into his poetry collections only because the words don't rhyme. Brautigan bills them as fiction but their accent gives them away as autobiographical trivia...
...Moliere's play. It's a very difficult task to make an American audience sit through a play in which the characters speak in verse: we'll make the necessary effort for Shakespeare, but we're not used to it, and it sounds--well, phoney. Especially when it rhymes. Wilbur's translation, however is so wonderfully apt and witty that it's a pleasure to hear it spoken. There are few trite or forced rhymes. And it's a novel and delightful experience to find oneself laughing at a particularly unexpected yet apt rhyme. With apologies to Ogden Nash...