Word: rhythm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
White Listeners. One should not dismiss too lightly any of the director's musings on success. It is one subject that he knows all about. Students of the Motown sound have long contended that it was Gordy's basic gimmick-the smoothing and packaging of rhythm and blues-that drew white listeners to his label. Essentially, he applied the same formula to his profitable production of Lady Sings the Blues, turning the hard life and times of Singer Billie Holiday into a muzzy backstage love story. It is also what happens in Mahogany. "I wanted to bring...
KENNEDY'S CHILDREN LACKS tension, rhythm, and climax--in fact everything except actors. In Patrick's play, five excellent actors wage war with a disastrous script. They lose, but their attempts to portray real people are worth watching. Michael Sacks, as the tortured Vietnam veteran, creates vocabulary of tense gestures and hulking movements. Barbara Montgomery evokes well the mythology that enveloped the Kennedys, but Patrick ruins her best speech with a cheap shot--moved to tears, she starts to sing the theme from Camelot. Don Parker as the ex-drag queen has tried to capture the whining intonations...
...knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you? Any author could be speaking--what's more, this writer is deliberately shirking a human, corporeal identity--but the reader absorbs the warning through its zig-zagged rhythm, by its attachment to a style. And he will only remember the idea through Ellison thinking...
Humble Detritus. But incident is the least of Author Woiwode's concerns. He subtitles this novel A Family Chronicle, and the description is apt. The book's rhythm is not that of cinema but of still life. Woiwode scatters memorabilia of the Neumiller clan through 44 separate stories, some of which have appeared alone in such dissimilar magazines as The New Yorker and Mademoiselle. Most of the tales are inventories of nostalgia-the humble detritus of people who, in George Eliot's phrase, "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." With rare patience...
...finest jazz planists to come into the picture in a long time, opens up for a four-day engagment in the Jazz Workshop. He's not alone. He's got the Health Brothers, Jimmy on tenor and Percy on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums to round the rhythm section...