Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEWESSERS sing while eating and drinking. The song is usually an apostrophe to hamburger or a dithyramb dedicated to cola, uncola or the beverage the citizens are forbidden to quaff on-camera: beer...
...recruits the young men of Assisi the way a rock singer might round up a band. Their rebellion against the opulent hypocrisy they see in the Roman Catholic Church is to run about in rags, looking radiant. In one scene they all get together in a church and sing a liturgical composition especially provided for the occasion by Donovan...
...similar sort of unobtrusive excellence permeates The Incompleat Folksinger. Most of the book is reprinted, largely from Sing Out magazine, and because it's anthological, it's discursive, repetitious and fun to browse in. It juxtaposes history ("The singingest union America ever had was the old Wobblies..."), memoirs of earlier singers from Joe Hill to Woody Guthrie (with whom Seeger traveled for awhile shortly after he dropped out of Harvard), accounts of the origins of various instruments and of Seeger's travels abroad, an unfortunately cursory version of his confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (the full transcript...
...craning his neck and turning his Roman profile to the light, Kennedy seems a little too arrogant: his sneers make the Titan's earlier compassion for man incomprehensible. With the exception of Liz Tyler, the chorus leader, and Louise Claps, the supporting cast too often tends toward melodrama or sing-song declamation. Tyler is adequate in a role comparable to the straight man in a comedy team; like a kindly next-door neighbor, she foils the cries and anguish of Prometheus and Io. The madness of Claps's Io just touches the edge of hysteria...
...production builds steadily, reaching competence towards the end of the first act and threatening to surmount it for the rest of the evening. Nabel and Eichkern both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...