Word: singsong
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...everywhere on TV these days, but nowhere is his extensive range of characters more fully revealed than in his first record album, I Am the President. The album has all those old political favorites plus Spiro Agnew, David Susskind and Henry Fonda, all right on target. Nixon's singsong baritone is so close to the mark, it makes one hope Frye never gets near the hot line. L.B.J.'s drawl reeks of chili down on the Pedernales, while Nelson Rockefeller's gravelly voice sounds as if he had taken a speech-improvement course and swallowed the pebbles...
...merely seeking political capital in the South, nor is his rhetoric aimed only at Moratorium marchers and other opponents of the war. Rather, he is emerging as a kind of improbable mahdi of Middle America. His often odd, occasionally clownish locutions, rendered in a W. C. Fields singsong, are abristle with nostalgias and assumptions of what American life ought to be. Armored in the certitudes of middle-class values, he speaks with the authentic voice of Americans who are angry and frightened by what has happened to their culture, who view the '60s as a disastrous montage of pornography, crime...
...major difficulty with the play is that the central character, who supposedly takes up where Mother Courage left off, is miscast. Emme Davidson is simply too healthy for the role. Wrapped in black, reclining on a couch, and sentenced to deliver her lines in a self-righteous singsong, she's like Truman Capote in drag. Well, let's just say Truman Capote period, and leave it at that...
...Your Essay, "That New Black Magic" [Sept. 27], mentions that: "Many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying 'Om!' " This is very true indeed! Occasionally I like to chant "Om, om, om," or "Aum, aum, aum," in a continuous solemn singsong tone; then I feel very strong spiritual vibrations swelling within me, as I am very sensitive by nature. I also tried chanting "Eloi, Eloi, Eloi," in like manner, and it could also give me personal peace...
...millions of viewers and then to so obviously skirt the issues. Nixon doesn't really dart his eyes about, but I do it to show the way his mind is working. Imagine him being asked his views about NATO." Abruptly Frye's voice drops into the familiar singsong baritone, and his arms flop up and down like a marionette's: "I'm glad you asked me that question. I'll tell you exactly what I think of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I think the same of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...