Word: sinuously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KEITH RICHARDS: TALK IS CHEAP (Virgin). From the shaking dance-club tune Big Enough to the sinuous Locked Away, Keith Richards' first solo album is a gas. Surprise: the hardest rolling Stone is a take-charge songwriter. Who needs Mick...
Michael Dukakis' campaign caravan, like a sleek, sinuous dragon, all flashing lights, police outriders, limo, station wagons, Secret Service, staff, two buses for the press, sweeps through Sacramento at 8 in the morning, all traffic halted at intersections by leapfrogging police cars with astonishing precision. Not an instant's impedance in the arteries of democracy. The campaign dazzles by to its event and comes to rest at a glistening green public park in the most splendid of California mornings. A soccer field, roped off. Twenty or 30 small boys in their soccer uniforms, their parents and friends on the sidelines...
...fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean the "Land of the Free" in more ways than one. Yet at the same time, the sinuous grace of the land is matched by its bilingual efficiency (a visitor at Bangkok's spanking new airport can go from touchdown to taxi in roughly 15 minutes...
...derivative, and not always very intelligently so. One would not normally cross the street to see earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America is likely to have heard of is Fujita Tsuguji, he of the sinuous, minutely penciled studio nudes whose prices seemed so excessive when the Japanese started buying them back at auction 15 years ago. And yet, against all the odds, this is a fascinating show -- one of the most curious spectacles of cultural relativity in recent memory...
...sinuous melodies and intricate lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the leading American composer of musicals, have made for an impressive body of work, including the delicate Pacific Overtures, the sanguinary Sweeney Todd and his new hit, Into the Woods. But Lloyd Webber's sure, if more conventional, sense of musical structure, his adroit handling of the orchestra (unlike Rodgers and Sondheim, Lloyd Webber generally makes his own orchestrations) and his willingness to tackle big subjects bespeak a talent no less sophisticated...