Word: roundabouts
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...finest compliment one can pay the off-Broadway Roundabout Theater revival is that it brings out all the Joycean echoes in Ibsen. When it falters, it is simply that few actors are intrepid enough to scale the sheer rock face of Ibsen's perdurable realities. ∙T.E.K...
Forgery. By day, Mullen methodically collected evidence. Each night he took a roundabout route to the Tribune Tower a mile away and recorded his findings in a carefully guarded book. Twice he was followed by board employees, but they concluded that he was going there only to meet a girl friend. After three months, Mullen had gathered enough documentation...
...money, but you've got a car, listen to AM radio. WRKO is the AM leader--music, patter, pimple cream and boutique ads. But they often bend the playlist a little. I heard the full version of Yes's "Roundabout" there, and just today I heard the full five and one-half minutes of Jeff Beck's "Ice Cream Cakes." These occasional album cuts are the result of a successful attempt to undercut WMEX's listernership. MEX, under new management, dropped the album cuts, and picked up the games, commercials and patter for a reason no one's been able...
...tightly structured format. Eschewing the standard rock pattern of vocal alternating with instrumental solos, the group's music proceeds on a logic of its own. Always tightly constructed, but never forced, the songs involve such a variety of instruments that the listener is sometimes overwhelmed. Songs like "Roundabout," "South Side of the Sky," and "Long Distance Runaround" are collages of melodies, percussion patterns, and vocal harmonies. Electric and acoustic guitars alternate freely with electric and grand pianos. Yes refuses to be hemmed in by musical convention; their motto appears to be "if it sounds good, play...
...sometimes happens in Italian politics, the electors, in a farcically roundabout way, had chosen the best man. Warm, witty and engaging, Leone is respected for his probity by the leftist parties as well as by most Christian Democrats. Born in Naples, he is one of the country's finest criminal lawyers and has written more than 100 books on jurisprudence. He served as a caretaker Premier twice, and was an impartial president of the Chamber of Deputies for eight years. In 1967, he was appointed Senator for life. Beyond Leone's personal qualifications for the job, there...