Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clarinet's possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument into whispery trills and treble work and then commanded a full-bodied tone as smooth as old wine. It was masterly Mozart, and the audience loved...
...volume on the radio as guesses about the song fly about the car. With the first word sung, everyone knows the answer but looks no less puzzled because, well, that's Bob Dylan singing, and what the hell is he doing with a trumpet player and three smooth-singing female background vocalists in his group...
...Your Love in Vain?" is the most popular song on the album-and the most mediocre. The trumpet-heralded introduction sounds smooth, all right, but the pastiche of instrumentals, background vocals and Dylan's lyrics fails to gel. The instrumentals and female vocalists in the chorus only serve to take away what power the lyrics have; in addition, the words themselves are not above suspicion, with lines like "All right, I'll take a chance, I'll fall in love with you" and the chorus "Are you going to risk it all, or is your love in vain?" Smooth...
...Coney Island hodgepodge of a production. It did better in 1966, and still better in 1974. Taken as a whole, the current version is as good as the third. Even if one disagrees with some of Freedman's initial decisions, one must admit that the result is a smooth and elegant production. Not many of the players and staff have worked at the AST before, and Freedman was probably wise to bring in a considerable roster of people with whom he had worked elsewhere. With one major exception, the actors are more than sufficiently at home in Shakespearean language...
...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...