Word: clinkers
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...eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal word--that "costly" fails the "huh?" test--produces a clinker. But McNamee is a writer, a name to mark down...
...times there is too much fuss in the arrangements, and the set includes one clinker -- a souped-up duet with Johnny Mathis on Day Follows Day in which it's obvious the two singers recorded in separate studios. But with a half- | spoken rendition of Sondheim's Old Friend, Horne demonstrates why she may be unrivaled at creating a character in a song. Horne seems rhythmically more daring than she used to be, toying with the beat in Havin' Myself a Time with an assurance that reveals how much she owes to Billie Holiday, the singer who made the song...
...collaborate on Face the Music in 1932 opened a rich new vein of melody. Depression America fought off the gathering gloom with the cheery bounce of Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee. For the first-act finale of As Thousands Cheer (1933), he dusted off an old clinker called Smile and Show Your Dimple, put a new bonnet on it and called it Easter Parade. Two years later, it was on to Hollywood, where Berlin wrote many of the tunes that sent % Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers flying into celluloid legend. Back on Broadway in 1946, he achieved...
...right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
...Vikings had a more developed culture than people think; not literate exactly, but capable of housing and decorating itself, and equipped with a rudimentary sense of law. Their supreme artifacts were their longships, beakprowed and clinker-built, with a shallow draft so that they could be rowed straight up on the beach for surprise attack, like landing craft, and usually powered by 30 or more oars. Alas, the Viking ships found in such Norwegian burial sites as Gok-stad and Oseberg, and now preserved in Oslo, are too fragile to cross the Atlantic. But as a sort of extension...