Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LINDA RONSTADT doesn't have to prove anything to anyone these days. When the country-rocker first broke into the big time with her solo act, critics complained that her repertoire was too limited, that the secret of her appeal was not her voice but her beauty. Ronstadt is undeniably a beautiful woman, or at the very least sexy, and she has undoubtedly used her sex appeal as a selling point. But her latest album, Simple Dreams, lays to rest once and for all any remaining doubts about her ability as a singer. Ronstadt...
Following introductions and a Southern gospel solo by Singer Archie Dennis that bemused the congregation, Graham began by explaining, a sentence at a time to permit translation into Hungarian, that he had come to Hungary at least partly to check whether the Danube was blue and get a taste of native gulyás. He recalled his own days as a boy down on the farm where he milked 20 cows every morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that...
...Francine, Minnelli is wholesome, glib, plucky - more a familiar manner than a characterization. Despite some heavy histrionics in her marital squabbles with Jimmy, there is a sense in her performance of counting the choruses till her next solo. Indeed, the latter half of the film moves toward her virtual apotheosis in a series of climactic production numbers. Their impact depends on how you feel about Liza's nightclub...
Kern did his first solo musical in 1912, and during the First World War years pioneered the "intimate musical," designed for the 299-seat Princess Theatre, where big orchestras and casts, elaborate spectacle, and more than two sets were proscribed...
...money arrayed against it, Star Wars has one clear advantage: it is simple, elemental, and therefore unique. It has a happy ending, a rarity these days. Princess Leia is saved, the Death Star is vaporized-oh, come on, you knew it all along-and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Artoo Detoo and Threepio receive the gratitude of freedom lovers everywhere. For most audiences the only sadness in the climax is that the film ends and cannot go on and on and on. It is surely one of the swiftest two hours on celluloid...