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...Shakespeare retains value due to the stirring beauty and evocative imagery of the poetry. Such is not the case with bad Mamet. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s language is all about its peculiar, febrile rhythms. A production which fails to capture those rhythms, therefore, falls flat, losing not only the enjoyment of the dialogue, but all of the richness contained therein. Such is the case in the recent production of Oleanna at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
which is round but not flat and has more colors...
...From the SRV composition “Pride and Joy” (since elevated to a blues staple) to the slow languorous burn that is Vaughan’s cover of “Texas Flood,” it’s evident that the man could just flat out play. In the early days before his discovery, Vaughan fused so much raw, open energy into his performance that even once removed through a recording, the presentation is nothing short of mesmerizing...
...Right Place”: The song that heralded Radiohead’s shift from guitars into the keyboard realm as the eerie first song on Kid A sounded like a band gradually materializing out of the ether on a barren landscape. On Wrong, it sounds like a flat and somewhat aimless keyboard sample underlaying Yorke’s vocals. When deprived of the mystique of distortion, they start to sound a little silly and aimless as he repeats, “This morning I woke up sucking a lemon...
...meant to be decorative. While their success in serving this purpose is clearly debatable from an aesthetic standpoint, they have been put to use by the artistically talented to display small and bizarre objects, the musically misguided who hunger for the popping noise made by the sound of a flat palm on hollow concrete and the alcoholically-inclined who have discovered that the holes are the exact size and shape as the cap of a beer bottle...