Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place during intermission or are expediently announced by the town crier. Further, Floyd seems to have forgotten that an opera audience surely wants to believe in the music at least as much as the story on stage. Floyd is ambivalent about his uses of music. He gives Doll a sweet ditty to sing as she makes dolls for two neighbors' children, but in a mad scene she is totally silent. Can one imagine Strauss or Donizetti abdicating their composers' rights at a moment like that...
...lights blaze on in the warm pool room and upstairs where the crocodiles smile. But it's nice out on the street; the klieg lights are off and the darkness is refreshingly cold. Too much Pudding leaves a sickly-sweet taste, like cheap champagne...
...ponderousness proportionate to the gravity of their message) that something is amiss at the college they all love so well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar of collegiate knowledge and sociability, is no longer, alas, what she once was. When the sad alumni walk past those ivy-bedecked, Roman numeral-inscribed walls, they can tell, almost viscerally, that something is different. Though they are never quite sure what that something is, they know it was better...
...mother was used to the Beatles. She even found parts of Bob Dylan's New Morning "nice" and was no longer aurally traumatized by the Rolling Stones. I didn't play her George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," but if I had it might have induced her to hum. Rock was in desperate straits. The only thing that could turn her stomach was the cover-photo of Alladin Sane featuring David Bowie coiffed, made-up and naked. She thought the music was disgusting, too. I listened to a lot of Bowie that year...
...sweet talking, night walking games...