Word: schmaltzing
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...Good News for People Who Love Bad News” proved anything, it was that Brock had enough genius to turn a shambling mess into a successful pop album. The lonely twang of early Modest Mouse songs may have been traded in for a gigantic layer of schmaltz and glittery hooks, but the band’s even more fatalistic than ever. Brock has described the album as a “nautical balalaika carnival romp,” which gives some insight into the controlled chaos that dominates each song. This album doesn’t necessarily break...
...might even learn something. For aside from the cinnamon and schmaltz that infuse many carols, the great American Christmas songbook affords young people their most sustained exposure to the vocal skills of the early to mid 20th century. I speak of pitch, clarity, enunciation, the artfully natural wedding of lyric and melody, intellect and emotion - what used to be called singing. Ignore the lofty, dewy texts of these songs, if you want, and attend to the care the singers invest in the succession of notes, the chain of aural imagery. You might ask: Where has this been all my life...
...still one of the most thrilling buildups in the history of the musical theater. But it's just the ice cream sundae at the end of Marvin Hamlisch's rich banquet of a score, with its equal helpings of Tin Pan Alley schmaltz and modernist invention. Sure, it's too soon for a Chorus Line revival. But it's also too soon to dismiss this show with mere nostalgia...
FUNNY, HE NEVER SEEMED SOBER Got a good script for a wisecracking fiftysomething with a weakness for schmaltz? California A.A. meetings might be the best place to shop it. In the wake of Mel Gibson's clumsy tumble off the wagon, ROBIN WILLIAMS has announced that "after 20 years of sobriety," he "found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family." The hyperactive comic, who has three movies due this fall, "looks forward to returning to work," his spokeswoman said. Audiences that...
...USED TO TOUR WITH BARRY MANILOW. PEOPLE SOMETIMES MAKE FUN OF HIM AS MR. '70S SCHMALTZ. WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT HIM? I love his sense of humor. I love his devotion to the craft and his devotion to this kind of music. That music is really the music of his childhood. One of my crackpot theories is that you never really get over that music. He's never really budged off his music, which I think is really fascinating. When I was flagged, I said, Oh, maybe I better do something else, and didn't have the courage...