Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, their new movie, The Kids Are Alright and its soundtrack album don't nearly do justice to the band's legendary performing style. Peter Townshend plays his guitar by rotating his arm like a vertical helicopter blade; Moon grins and leers through drum solos; John Entwistle, like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...
Although he writes in a style of studied unconventionality and portrays his depraved characters sympathically, Wedekind nevertheless wrote a morality play. The characters are not human beings but types and all receive their just deserts by the final curtain. However, no sense of optimism or serene belief in retribution lighten the atmosphere of depravity and despair. The world remains cold, detached, evil--and absurd...
NEVERTHELESS, Sellars and his technical crew have done a magnificent job of capturing this atmosphere. In Lulu, Sellars has found an appropriate vehicle for his operatic style of staging. Here he can indulge his predilection for larger-than-life dramatics...
...Weaver does not win games fighting with umpires. He wins with his own distinctive style of managing. He does not believe inflexibly in the sacrifice bunt, the hit-and-run or, for that matter, the supposedly hallowed rule that left-handed hitters hit better against right-handed pitchers, and vice versa. He does believe-in The Stats. The Stats, those mysterious denizens of a huge, battered filing cabinet in Weaver's Baltimore office, show every Oriole hitter's performance-lifetime, seasonal and last week-against every American League pitcher. Boston Manager Don Zimmer will start the same...
...should be Divorcee's Day. Three highly articulate women (Tammy Grimes, Susan Tyrrell, Mary Beth Hurt) who have been ditched by their husbands indulge in distinctly inflammatory remarks about the male as s.o.b. Alternating between poignance and dipsy mirth, this drama takes a 20/20 look at divorce, U.S. style...