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...power and energy of David Byrne's newest release, Rei Momo, doesn't knock you to your knees, it will definitely leave you wondering how the drummer didn't pass out from sheer exhaustion. An inspired combination of South American salsa and merengue styles, country and western twangs and violin concertos, Rei Momo has an almost thoroughly upbeat effect that is certain to make you dream of spending next year's Carnival in Brazil...
Since bureaucratic sadism is familiar to everyone everywhere, I was somewhat prepared for the denial of a simple request during the 600-mile, 18-hour train trip to Beijing. But I was not prepared for the sheer delight visible on the conductor's face when she said, "Meiyou, the rule does not permit turning on the lights before 7 p.m. and it's only 6:30. You will just have to wait 30 minutes...
Berlin's musical signature was the sheer inevitability of his songs, the way they seemed to have always been around, like folk songs. Surely White Christmas is an authentic carol, not a number composed for the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. God Bless America must have been sung first by Washington's troops at Valley Forge, not by Kate Smith in 1938. And didn't Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning emerge from a pioneer encampment and not from a 1918 army musical called Yip, Yip, Yaphank...
...Zimmerman said. "They tired him out with all those long matches. It seemed like he put all his energy into the first set, and when he lost, he sort of gave up. If he had won the first set, he might been able to take the second just from sheer adrenaline...
...innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic fancy. < He believably underscores the improvisatory quality of Sweeney's first murders...