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...ephemeral are moments of love and fulfillment. The dreariness of life and the absence of real intimacy between people flowing past each other in time are caught in "Another War to Find You" and "Don't It Drag On." Smither's disquieting sense of lonely resignation is eloquently sung in lines such...
More formalized political language characterizes the other rewrites of hard rock songs on the PLP-LP. "High-Heel Sneakers" becomes "Get Out Your Red Flag Workers." "Governor Sargent's Racist Cutbacks Blues," sung to the tune of "Memphis," does feature some good lines...
Though the lyrics sung are usually clear and refined, some of the Falloon's songs do deteriorate into obscurity and triteness. Baron's Daughter, the faltering encore performed Friday night, has lines like. "Casting about the locker rooms-Hoping for baby eagles in the doom. All the time you're on fire-knowing what you desire," whose meaning is barely perceptible. The groups new, untitled number also had some ridiculously superfluous lyrics like. "I was kneeling on my knees." Many times, however, the music does hold one's attention in spite of the cryptic phrasing...
...throwaway numbers that commented on the plot rather than advance it. It all looked innocent enough--since Sally Bowles, the play's heroine, sings in a sleazy Berlin nightclub, the Kit Kat Klub, it was only natural that the musical would utilize some of the numbers she would have sung on the job. The effect, however, proved far more insidious...
...Women are more aware of the personal worth and professional potential of each other now. I too had sung the chorus, "I'd rather talk to men than women" and "coeds are all parrots." We joined in the great putdown, even of each other, and then, being outside the Brotherhood of Men, had either to go it alone second class or latch on to a man who would give us his "success...