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...Shuman: "This Magic Moment," "Save the Last Dance for Me" and the can-never-be-played-too-often "Sweets for My Sweet." L&S also encouraged the young songwriters in Broadway?s Brill Building - Gerry Goffin and Carole King ("When My Little Girl Is Smiling"), Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("On Broadway"), who were all in their late teens or early 20s -to write plangent pop ballads. These were the Broadway songs that Broadway couldn?t bring itself to write...
...Leiber and Stoller weren?t responsible for the Drifters? indenture, they also didn?t bother to force its change. And though the writer-producers? early work had an underdog acerbity, their determination to produce hit after Drifters hit made them cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...
Barrett is underwhelmed by today's New Age celebrities. Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is "very slick but makes glaring errors and hardly ever admits anything is quackery. I call him a 'rubber ducky.'" Deepak Chopra he dismisses as a purveyor of "Ayurvedic mumbo jumbo." (Chopra, for his part, calls Barrett "a self-appointed vigilante for the suppression of curiosity...
...Weil painstakingly outlines these hands with charcoal rather than with loose oil paints. These lines of charcoal are so soft, however, that the distinction between oil paints and charcoal is difficult to identify. This rich use of texture, coupled with the swirling blends of oranges and yellows, creates an effect that is both stunning yet soothing...
...similar soothing sense of color continues throughout the exhibit, and the viewer may well blissfully ponder Weil’s celebration of cultural heritage before realizing the juxtaposition between subject matter and color. In the “Memories and Dreams” catalogue, Weil constantly asserts his “atheistic philosophy,” where he distinctly separates culture from religion and states that he has no interest in religious ritual or faith...