Word: tunelessness
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...Woodruff (the Gypsy Queen) shows strong potential, but poor blocking and choreography prevent her from shining the way her solo "Acid Queen" could. Christopher Monteleone (Captain Walker) displays little-to-no chemistry with his shrill melodramatic wife (played by Lisa Capps), who weeps and wails her lines into a tuneless mess. While Michael Gruber (Cousin Kevin) must be applauded for his sexy bleached hair and fine-looking body, his own pitch skills also need serious development...
...Springsteen's turntowards socially-conscious narrative music, then,will be happy with the end of the album:conceivably, Springsteen intended the embarrassingsoft-rock barrage that burdens much of disk fourto warn the fan that there are worse things thanprotest music. On "Goin' Cali," Springsteen showsthat even at his most tuneless, his leastpropulsive, his voice conveys remarkablycompelling, barely restrained emotion. And"Brothers under the Bridge," hearkening back tothe similar but incomparably awful 1983 tune ofthe same name, does demonstrate a certain amountof maturation: It is as powerful as "Youngstown,"Joad's cornerstone and Springsteen's bestnew song of the past decade...
...sets are suitably sleazy, and Renee Fleming pours heart and soul into the role of Blanche DuBois. But Previn's well-bred score barely hints at the dark crosscurrents of obsession and desperation that made Tennessee Williams' play so naggingly memorable. This slow-moving Streetcar is tonal but tuneless, sometimes violent but never sexy. Even the bluesy bits are oddly polite--an unexpected letdown from a composer-conductor who plays first-rate jazz piano on the side. Let's face it, Williams' lush prose needs no music: it is its own opera...
...audience at the dedication, seated and standing on the lawn between the Science Center and the gate, coped good-naturedly with the rain which fell briefly during the ceremony and joined in a fairly tuneless but certainly enthusiastic rendition of the revised "Fair Harvard." The panels which followed (if all were as enlightening as the Journalism and Media panel moderated by Jill Abramson '76) accomplished in small what Harvard needs more of in large: female role models sharing their career and life experiences with undergraduates, providing resources, reassurance and inspiration. For further inspiration, the College published a commemorative booklet...
...cartoon is a musical , but the soundtrack lacks luster. Even Glen Campbell's voice cannot redeem the tuneless, beatless songs. The grade of animation is maybe one step above Saturday morning cartoons but nowhere near the vivid imagery of Beauty and the beast...