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...deep, honey-dipped soul. Even when he seems to be singing about, well, poultry, as on the supremely funky El Dorado Sunrise (Super Chicken), it feels vaguely religious. As a producer, Cee-lo orchestrates a humid symphony of rap, rock, gospel, horns and African rhythms to go with his wordplay. No album in recent memory--Yankee or Dixie--has taken so much joy in simply making music...
...Herriman played as well with verbal poetry as he did with visual. Puns, alliteration and copious phonetic wordplay fill the balloons and boxes. Krazy in particular has a remarkable patois like you've never seen before, combining Shakespearian sentence construction with strange malapropisms. To his worm pal he warns of the early bird: "He's a boid - and he's oily and he kraves a woim - ooy, l'il woim, l'il woim - I shudda and shiva for you." His bittersweet song of love goes, "There is a heppy lend...
...Teresa (Michelle Yard), St. Ignatius (John Heginbotham) and 12 "assorted saints" swoop, skip, strut and tango across the stage, bringing out all the fun in an opera that, since its 1934 premiere, has been embraced almost solely by devotees of the avant-garde. Skating atop Stein's nonsensical wordplay ("Once in a while and where and where around around is as sound and around"), Morris has created a heavenly playground full of beautiful saints who dance like angels. As always, he draws his main inspiration from the music. "It's so friendly!" Morris says of Thomson's score, a festively...
...good to have the author's subtle wit and love of wordplay on display again, even in small doses. And the book on beasts will be of special interest to the faithful because it purports to be a facsimile of a copy actually owned by Harry Potter and bearing his schoolboyish annotations. When, for example, the author promises "A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts," Harry circles "Brief" and scrawls "you liar." No wonder so many readers love this...
...some point, recorded material that I've enjoyed, including DMX's "Ruff Ryders Anthem," Eminem?s "Guilty Conscience," and Puff Daddy's production work with Mary J. Blige. They have also all recorded lyrics that I've abhorred - some critics may give Eminem credit for his "edgy" wordplay, but in my book attacking gays and women is pretty cowardly stuff. Then again, my book didn't sell 8 million copies and Eminem's album...