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Earth Opera's music is patterned and sibilant, propelled by staccato bursts of notes--and saxophone duets, drum rallies etc. each in turn play this refresher role. The songs range from wistful reminiscences to socio-political challenges. Above all, though, Earth Opera has the Rock Presence.
Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning...
Hut Shrinker. The story beats with the low but constant pulse of loss and dislocation-qualities that are found in greater measure in The Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his...
The hope of the American theater has sometimes been placed in off-Broadway: in terms of sustained achievement this amounts to wistful thinking. Of the several playwrights who got their start off-Broadway, only Edward Albee has remotely fulfilled his promise. But since Virginia Woolf, his work has persistently dwindled...
Like many sequences of this contradictory movie, the primate prologue is overlong and repetitious. Still, it serves to introduce the film's key character: the shining oblong, a mass of extraterrestrial intelligence that supposedly has been overseeing mankind since the Pliocene age. Now, in the 21st century, the mass...