Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowie through various incarnations and musical styles. His recurrent themes of the demise of mankind, the descent of aliens from the stars, communication and travel to other worlds, have demanded by their very nature new kinds of expression. As progressing years brought sweeping advances in the realm of electronic sound, Bowie's musical scope expanded. The suspension of disbelief required by his futuristic songs was facilitated by the surprise element of sounds unfamiliar to our ears. Bowie's blend of rock and myths bridged the gap beautifully, and contributed to the originality of his sound...
Pips can be heard crooning on the sound track. These interludes completely halt the action, but in view of what the action is, they are something of a relief. Christophjer Porterfield
...decade ago, starched, prim, and complete with bouffant hair-do; and three grinning Marvelettes ("you can call me up and have a date, any old time"), spike-heeled and poured into satin and sequin sheaths--to mention just a few. The pictures are abundant, and cliched though it may sound, they capture the excitement, the innocence and the defiance of so much early rock with greater clarity than most writers could ever hope to achieve...
Many of the new words have surprisingly old-fashioned genealogies. People were "mugged" in provincial Lincolnshire as early as 1866, as in "I gave him a sound mugging, he was so chappy." A Mrs. P. Snowden, traveling in Bolshevik Russia, went "behind the Iron Curtain at last" in 1920, a generation before Winston Churchill gave the term currency in a speech at the end of World...
Kremer appears headed for international renown. His technique is complete, his tone thinner than some but capable of glorious sunbursts of sound. He is no "Watch me go" virtuoso. His debut program, for example, was devoid of the crowd-arousing Romantic potboilers favored by so many of his Soviet predecessors. Instead, he and his piano accompanist, Xenia Knorre, played Beethoven's dreamy, introspective Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96. And wonderfully. They also offered an American work not many U.S. artists take the trouble to learn: Charles Ives' frolicsome Sonata No. 4 (Children...