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...least ours, if not his.“Weird Fish/Arpeggi” features the line: “Your eyes / They turn me / Why should I stay?” Radiohead can’t stay put; “In Rainbows” is their jazziest, most eclectic offering yet, and it’s a relief to find that the band’s music matters as much as ever.Despite its intangibility, “In Rainbows” is, in a sense, the first real album we’ve had from anyone in a long...
...lighting, and costume is kept to a minimum; the strings of colored lights that sparkle at select moments are the jazziest prop. The emphasis is on the actors’ faces, voices, and motions—the effect is at times orgiastic. The caffeine-induced frenetic energy that escalates in “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup” climaxes in sexy “Arthur in the Afternoon,” in which Cassis and Levine cannot seem to get enough of one another. Each number tells a short story, and taken together they paint an ironic portrait...
SOCKS APPEAL What could be more pedestrian than socks? In an effort to give the $4.7 billion sock market some legs, hosiery manufacturers are putting their jazziest foot forward. From E.G. Smith come Safe Sox, which have pockets, and the Pigalle, a glittery sock with attachable garter. Going for the tattoo look? K. Bell is producing sheer socks with embroidered insects. And Basic Knead has a reflexology sock for those who just have to put their feet...
...Long, choreographer Susan Stroman and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Some are working at half speed. Menken's melodies are less inventive than his scores for the Disney cartoons The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. He gets a B+ for hummable ballads and ho-humbuggable comic turns. Stroman's jazziest ideas are reprises of her dancing-on-furniture number from Crazy for You. Ahrens' lyrics are wan, snapless. It takes a while for the 90-min. show to become more than the sum of its parts...
Harry S. Truman was plunking his give-'em-hell keyboard again last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...