Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anarchy of Bu@#241;uel's vision, there is nothing chaotic about his filmmaking style. At 77, he is in such fluid touch with his 'medium that he seems incapable of staging an awkward shot. The movie appears to flow directly from his subconscious, just as surrealist art is meant to do. Fernando Rey, a veteran of a decade of Buñuel films, finds as much baroque humor in his many bouts with coitus interruptus as he did in the unfinished eating scenes of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The two mysterious Conchitas - one svelte (Carole...
Fine ran the show for coach Frank McLaughlin's Crimson, sparking the offense with 18 points (tops), five assists (ditto) and a style of dribbling that can best be described as fluid...
...second period opened with Penn continuing its Bowery Boys style of play. After four minutes Harvard was two men up, and after 5:20 a Jackie Hughes fastball from the blue line made it 3-2, Harvard. Purdy and Cochrane assited on the power play tally...
...little. "1993," an appropriately spacy tung, is closer to rock and roll than anything he's played for years. There's nothing fancy here, beyond some tricky synthesizer effects; nothing lyrically precious or musically cute. In that it's a return to basics, it's a divergence from the style Scaggs has come to be known for, and it works. Jeff Porcaro's drumming is unspectacular, but so steady that one wishes he'd be cut free of the quasi-disco beat earlier...
...that won't quit; a lyric tag you won't be able to forget; strong, simple orchestration; and best of all, a sly and casual vocal with Scaggs fitting his voice to the lyrics as well as he's ever done. The song is fully within the "Silk Degrees" style, but it shows a sure touch, a confidence and sense of command that's nowhere in evidence on the earlier album...