Word: singingest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...
...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...
Small rooms give Mory's an intimsey that Cronin's misses. The big difference is the steady signing from every table, a recreation banned by law in Boston. Yale is the singingest college in the East, and Mory's gathers music waves like a sonar machine. If a person isn't singing, he's hushing his friends to hasp someone else sing...
| 1 |