Word: unevennesses
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...three important roles are solid, the skeleton of Peace Decorum is not. Walter Moses' music is uneven: "Wander Lust," some of his "Ballet" and, of course, "Razzle Dazzle" are just fine, but scarcely memorable or even nice to hum. Alan Lutkus' lyrics are competent, but often inane, and they don't follow Carter Wilson's book too closely...
...exponents of the outre in dance and music, have joined forces to produce a bizarre performance that has (they claim) only projective meaning: it isn't what they say, it's what the audience thinks they're saying that counts. Last Saturday's concert of three pieces met with uneven success in its attempt to give some clue as to what it was all about, but it was still...
Aaron's various sketches are uneven. The least original are those where he painstakingly describes the Party's cultural affairs and the amazingly scurrilous and passionate squabbles in the magazines that were closely identified with the Party. No part of Writers on the Left seems more remote from our own concerns than the world of little Marxist magazines, writers' congresses and manifestoes that flourished during the '30's. Nowadays the kind of book review that devotes 11 paragraphs to telling you about the crisis in capitalist culture and its last 3 paragraphs to explaining why the reviewer is a better...
VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which...
...writing in the National Observer, while clear, is uneven. Lead paragraphs, in particular, vary from sharp, direct statements to uninteresting, left-field approaches. A typical lead of the first type was, "The U.S. is becoming more deeply involved in a fierce, undeclared war in southeast Asia." This is not wildly exciting, but it sums up a long story in a sentence and is at least moderately eye-catching...