Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bass player Timothy B. Schmit, a former member of Poco who replaces Meisner, adds a new dimension to the Eagles, tempering the fury of The Long Run with his romantic "I Can't Tell You Why." Schmit's haunting tenor elevates run-of-the-mill lyrics to a sensitive, convincing...
The effort to make life and art one and the same does very little to change life, and generally dilutes art; but it is one of the permanent, unrealizable fixtures of the romantic will to cultural impact, and thus the favorite bromide of the avantgarde.
Far more interesting are the female vocalist tracks. Fleetwood Mac has always been at its best in the slow, seductive songs of Stevie Nicks and the more assertive but somehow also more despairing ones by Christine McVie. Between the two a certain tension exists which keeps the group from sinking...
NOTHING DISTRESSES the sap-loving theater-goer more than watching the slow deterioration of this dowager of romantic musicals. Her originality is withered; her witticisms are expected; her style is frumpy and outdated by two decades. She survives on her past grandeur - barely enough to keep her flickering, let alone...
DIED. Yaeko Mizutani, 74, grande dame of the Japanese stage for a quarter of a century; of cancer; in Tokyo. A breathtaking beauty, Mizutani made her stage debut at eight and became the national sweetheart, playing romantic roles in plays by Tolstoy, Shakespeare and Ibsen. In 1928 she joined Japan...