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...Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went: "Frost and Nixon, Frost and Nixon/ There's an act that's gonna need some fixin...
...called Euphoria, and island-hops through the Antilles. His music, like his lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...
What the English then wanted in ceramics was "hardness, whiteness and translucency"; Leach's work opposed this taste. Its clear volumes and rigorous "drawing" are a legacy from Chinese Sung dynasty pottery. But the emblem of his style-and his favorite possession-is a Korean rice bowl, made by a 19th century village potter on an irregular wheel. "That is as it should be," he says, caressing the roughly glazed clay. "The plain and unagitated, the uncalculated, the harmless, the straightforward, the natural, the innocent, the humble, the modest: where does beauty lie if not in these qualities? More...
...usually full by the time the last course arrived. What happened was that he forgot that there would be a last course, and by the time it arrived, he had no interest in it. That habit of his reminded her of Wang An-shih, the prime minister of the Sung dynasty, who was known always to consume the dishes which happened to be positioned closest to him without taking notice of other dishes arrayed on the table. When his wife told the cook that he always favored those dishes placed near him, the cook thought it was the dish...
...cares anyway? Bernstein offers us no special reason to care, the characters remain cardboard stereotypes and their situation all too familiar banality. Bernstein's inability to musically activate this trite scenario becomes obvious at the climax, when the characters lapse into speech. If husband and wife had sung these commonplaces of insult and apology, it would have been laughable; their situation doesn't warrant the dignity of music. Even "Island Magic," the cheap illusions of a Technicolor movie, which Bernstein invokes to resolve the couple's muddle (it doesn't deserve to be called dramatic conflict) can't pull...