Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among these new entries and those that have appeared this year are three promising prospects, Speedy and the Castanets, Rhythm Co, and Jane's Parents...
...they start to be more familiar with each other, they're going to sound real good." Noelani R. Rodriguez '83, bassist for The Girl Next Door, says of the younger groups. Rodriguez also played with Hand to Mouth and Rhythm Co., and organized dances with live bands under the pseudonym of the Performing Arts Committee...
...band, a trio, will combine rock with rhythm & blues in a style she at first calls "synthopop" and then amends to "something that's more savage and tribal." She plans to use the same kind of dance roots as, say. David Bowie did on his most recent album. Let's Dance, but "bring them down to a very raw kind of pub sound. Fifty people beating on drums--that's what they did in the first place...
...Lipton, the producer of the special, has sent over the script, and Hope's staff of four writers has come up with some jokes for his monologue. As he rehearses the material for his visitor, it becomes ever clearer that although the rapid-fire rhythm once clocked at 44 jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing...
...dour. Gere takes his beat from Jerry Lee Lewis records. He is an instinctive anarchist moving to a wild rock pulse, and such thoughts as he has are supplied by Silver Surfer, the comic-book character. That, in particular, is a superb invention, giving the film a compulsive rhythm that drives out comparisons and forces the audience to judge the film on its own terms...