Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women caused a stir when they first arrived at the submarine headquarters in Pearl Harbor. Men felt obliged to carry the women's heavy swab buckets and tool kits. But as the novelty of working with women faded, the men quit and the female sailors began lugging their own tools and filled their buckets only halfway to make them lighter...
...dash of seniors, Karl Forsgaard and captain John Pickering at six and fix; mix in junior Jeff Cooley at four, and stir in cocky senior Bill Chapman and Donald Harting up front, with sophomore bow Pasha Lakhdir for good measure, and the ingredients for another crown are in the basin...
What keeps these excursions along the wild side from being slumming expeditions is Reed's own rapt sympathy for the grifters, freaks and crooks who populate much of his music. Many of his songs are shot through with the kind of deadend romanticism that would stir Bruce Springsteen (who, in fact, appears unbilled and unannounced on Street Hassle, reciting the melancholy introduction to the third vignette). If Lou Reed gives no quarter in his music, neither does he yield to sensationalism or condescension. "You know," he sings in Street Hassle, "some people got no choice/ And they can never...
...second Senate vote does not come at the best of times. The Soviet Union is rapidly building up its armaments and brazenly sending its Cuban allies into Africa to stir up trouble and challenge American interests. Many treaty supporters, including Senator Henry Jackson, are understandably concerned that a ceding of the canal may be interpreted as another American retreat. But the U.S. is hardly backing down from a Soviet threat; it is rising to the occasion of settling a dispute with an ally. If it is a sign of weakness to capitulate to an enemy, it may well...
...chorus lingers and mingles with larger-than-life-size cutouts of hotel guests, bell-hops and beach umbrellas, all of which give the stage an effective style halfway between art deco and '70s surrealism. None of the flesh and blood lingers in the second act. The cutouts sway and stir as each character dashes madly around. Laurel Leslie, playing Susie, is consistently good, but is truly at her best here, switching costumes, rescuing her brother, dancing Charlestons and tangos, and looking rattled throughout. If, as her brother says, her mind is in her dancing shoes, then she clearly has lots...