Word: sportcoat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understanding with each other. Each understood that neither could communicate with the other. So it makes sense that one of Satch's initial tasks with the Celtics will be to restore communication between the coach and the players, a task for which he's as perfectly suited as a sportcoat from Robert Hall...
...find My Way Home." The Lieberman-Kushnick segment of the program began forcefully, and later drifted to the ethereal with "Holes in the Sky," a 32-bar rendition of a poem by Louis NacNiece. The next four songs formed a cycle beginning with the straightforward harmonic piece, "Velvet Sportcoat," followed by "Ode to the Apocalypse" and its fast-paced thematic cousin, "Ark Tangents," whose music dances upon Daniel Dern's surrela lyrics...
...perceptions, Jeannie Lieberman sees herself as "a psychic emotional jiggler" who asks herself "deep root questions," and expects the listener to do the same. She uses her voice as an instrument, experimenting to discover the right texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal as they echo above Joynson's gentle electric...
...contrast to the islands was unfair, but in three hours I had changed worlds, and I was forced to make comparisons. Were the Gucci shoes and the Lilly sportcoat as expressive as the proud fisherman's beard and straw hat? And the weaver and the crazy woman-was their squabble the same as a joust of honking between a Mercedes and a Bentley? No, emphatically, no. Not Palm Beach: this extravagance could not have the same depth as the simple, slow, island rituals. The islanders' foibles had communicated their self-knowledge. Here, I felt that the foilbes denied that knowledge...