Word: sings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are hints in Wendy Waldman of a thematic unity, a unifying consciousness that weaves the songs in and out of each other. In "Western Lullaby," the opening cut, she sings "Leave behind your visions dark and dreary... for you know that singin' is believin' "and it's almost as if her album is the dream she's leading you into after she has put you to sleep. There are moments on the album when the songs seem to fit together as nicely as a string of dreams. The slow western drawl promising to take you away "across the wide...
...synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns the romances of two couples-Burt Reynolds and, inevitably, Cybill Shepherd; Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete -as they sing and dance through some smoggy dream of the '30s. The couples do not sing very well, though, and in dancing resemble a troop of hikers trying to extinguish a campfire...
...Bogdanovich was trying to do. It's not witty, it's not good-looking, it's not even fun. "It's intentionally bad," Bogdanovich told a bewildered interviewer in last week's Village Voice, going on to explain that he was making a movie about people who "happen to sing and dance because they feel like it." But this film has neither the substance nor the charm to subsidize that kind of indulgence. A plot it's not got; that would be all right if someone could sing or dance or the images were interesting. Ernst Lubitsch made some...
...coaches are too serious," he said, adding that he thinks winning has become too much of a "goal." "We used to just go out there to have a good time, play some good rugby, drink some beer and sing some songs," the veteran said...
...policies and conduct apparent in the case on the part of Harvard University raise disturbing questions in the minds of most employees. We, the HEOC, extend our strongest support for Robin Sing in her struggle. Mary-Anita Browne Acting Chairperson on behalf of the HEOC