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...offer her femmes fatales from Bellini's Norma to Berg's Lulu. The opera, however, is as much of a mess as Marilyn was. Rosten's lines (Marilyn to her half-sister: "How's your little dog Lollie, the one with six toes?") are frequently ludicrous, especially when sung to Laderman's plodding, semitonal noodlings. And the decision to make Monroe the only real character, surrounded by bloodless composites like the Psychiatrist, the Senator and Rick, an ex- husband, forecloses any dramatic tension. (Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?) Marilyn's life was larger than life, but her opera...
...honor of the outgoing council and its traditions, a dear friend has composed a special good-bye, to be sung to the tune of our national anthem...
Trey Greyson '94, vice president of the IOP Student Advisory Committee, said that he wished Yarrow had sung for a longer time...
...Bette the Broadway star, fronting campy production numbers and performing the stark Rose's Turn from her forthcoming CBS revival of Gypsy. Bette the burlesque comic, delivering her Sophie Tucker jokes with a wonderfully perky diction that bleaches out the blue. Finally, Bette the nonpareil balladeer; she has now sung The Rose 4,186 times, but it and her other standards still bloom. Age has made Midler's interpretations subtler, more mature, and her supple pipes rarely get frazzed by the punishing workout she puts them through five nights a week...
After Marley died of a brain tumor in 1981 at 36, a new generation of Trenchtown youths began to forge a harder, denser style of reggae called dancehall. Reflecting the desperate times in Kingston's ghettos, dancehall lyrics were charged with angry diatribes glorifying guns, drugs and sex, and sung often in a fast, talky style called "toasting." On Minute to Pray, Mad Cobra warns, "Original bad boy have no mercy/ Original bad boy run the country/ Them get a minute to pray and a second to die . . . We no miss the target...