Word: schmalzing
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...first time in 35 years, the opportunity has come to experience this classic mixture of special effects and schmalz as it was intended--complete with originally censored footage. Who could grow up in America and deliberately pass up the chance...
...poor. Musically it is a far cry from the gospel or blues styles a black singer-composer might normally apply to such subjects. Instead Gaye weaves a vast, melodically deft symphonic pop suite in which Latin beats, soft soul and white pop, and occasionally scat and Hollywood schmalz, yield effortlessly to each other. The overall style of the album is so lush and becalming that the words-which in themselves are often merely simplistic-come at the listener like dots from a Seurat landscape. They are innocent individually, but meaningful en masse. Heard over a genial rock beat, the song...
...extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...
...tender love scene to a fiery voodoo incantation. Everywhere, Delius' music flows effortlessly in and out, over and under the libretto (based on the novel The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable) with the caressing quality of rhapsody at its best. Save for a few instances of post-Wagnerian schmalz, the score is astonishingly original in its chromatic colorations and declamatory singing style...
...hours before settling into a lunch that often lasted until after 4 p.m. Everyone then trooped off to a teahouse for more food and drink. In the prewar years, only a few hours later came supper and films. Hitler's taste in movies ran to romantic schmalz and leggy revues; he could not abide Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, Speer notes dryly. When the films were over, everyone else was glassy-eyed with fatigue, but Hitler prattled on as beer, wine and sandwiches were handed around until 2 a.m. Speer writes: "When, I would ask myself, did he really...