Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This unsavory brew of landlocked lechery and homicide has something -although not enough-to do with a Yukio Mishima novel. The book's spiritual narcissism and level tone of nightmare has been replaced here by the flossy look of soft-core porn, the pulpy dementia of a horror flick...
...Preston K. Munter, the director of Law School Health Services and a Dudley House associate, set the tone for the evening when he expressed Dudley House's "sense of loss and feelings of ambivalence...
...those more surrealistic fantasies still lurk in the Stones' repertoire, and as the final "Crazy Mama" testifies, they still can master the portrayal. "Crazy Mama" is a rambunctious rocker whose lyrics are garbled just enough so that you never know exactly what the song is about. But the tone is plenty menacing, as are the words and lyrics which can be made out. Such intriguing bits as: "Well you crazy mama/With your ball on a chain/And you sawed off shotgun/ Blood all on your brains, yeah," and "You can scandalize me/Scar all over my name/ You can steal my money...
...stunning performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. Stulberg and the Bach Society nimbly handled the complicated rhythms. Even during tutti passages the group never covered the soloist. Gliding through frequent changes in mood from sad to satirical, Reinhold maintained complete control. She demonstrated an exquisitely pure tone amidst the large intervallic leaps which Prokofiev loved to inflict on musicians...
...snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic ring to the former ("I'm quiet and I'm proud and I'm gathering a crowd and I like gravy/'Bout half off the wall but then I learned it all in the Navy"), something Nelson could never really pull...