Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lyrics are instructive in an ironic way. They prove that good politics does not necessarily equal good music. What Ono hasn't learned is that an honest verbal expression of self does not constitute art unless the writer is honestly artistic. The words must capture a mood, an image, an idea with feeling to which others may grab hold to drift along with the song. How can you get excited about a lyric like...
...feel strongly that legitimate protests by students for the abolition of unjust and unfair laws is a freedom that should be guaranteed by every government. To sentence students to jail terms without a fair trial for verbal insults to police officers is a mockery of the heritage of democratic principles which originated in Greece...
...INTERVIEW WITH a mime? Sounds contradictory. But in fact David Fechtor is one of the more verbal people I've met around here...
...though, it has become obvious that the freeze will not only prevent much new building, but will stop many slum-rebuilding projects in midcourse, halting site-clearance work or even actual construction already in progress. Housing officials in some cities move such projects along on the basis of verbal commitments from federal officials. They sign a formal subsidy contract only when the builders are about to begin putting up steel and pouring concrete, or have already begun...
...child's Fairy Tale--too much of the humor of the thing is of a mildly sick adult variety, the degenerate offshoot of upper-middle class Broadway comedy, with its pallid neuroses that all the ashamed afflicted can laugh at. Segal also makes a real effort at verbal acrobatics, and falls flat. "Magic beans, the stuff dreams are made of! And also magic vegetable stew," can't qualify as one of the better bits of verbal word play of the late 20th century...