Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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P.D.Q. BACH'S MUSICAL ineptness was not the sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune. Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other. A lesser problem was his lack of melodic gift. As the third movement of the Serenoodle, entitled "Chorale Prelude," amply demonstrated. P.D.Q. Bach stole tunes from his better freely and without compunction...
...ought not to have been. The movie is a continuation of Barbra Streisand's first starring vehicle. Like Funny Girl (1968), Funny Lady is gaudy and inane. As before, the star cuts up and camps up a revamped biography of Fanny Brice, here and there belting out a tune as if the lyrics were marching orders. Streisand is still more the enthusiastic personality than dexterous actress. She changes costumes faster than moods, and usually tosses off her lines like a rich girl rummaging through a drawer full of last year's clothes...
...stars lends the movie its feisty appeal, its wholehearted trafficking in musical cliches imparts an air of ingratiating delirium. There are the usual lavish numbers-including a reproduction of a Billy Rose Aquacade -staged with a satiric glint by Director Herbert Ross (The Last of Sheila). But the best tune in the show is a ballad (If I Love Again), delivered quietly by Streisand as she stands with a song sheet over a piano. The writers have also supplied a fair number of punchy Broadway wisecracks. Says Caan, proposing to Streisand as he flashes a hulking ring: "I paid retail...
Similarly, the published statistics do not reflect the fact that many of those who are counted as jobholders are only partially employed. According to the BLS, there are 3.7 million Americans who are working short hours or hold part-time jobs because they cannot find full-tune work. One little-noted BLS measure called "labor-force time lost" combines partial employment with unemployment on a man-hour basis to show the recession in terms of missing production time rather than missing jobs. The current rate...
...reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn raid, seven of the fedayeen had died, along with eight hostages and three Israeli soldiers. Eleven other persons were wounded...