Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BELIEVERS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN SONG (RCA Victor). Sketching the path of the people brought from Africa to America, 13 full-voiced performers of this off-Broadway production lovingly interpret the music that expresses their history. The thunder drums of Ladji Camara provide a lightning introduction to the African chapter. The misery of the slave ships, the dreariness of the plantations, the vitality of the small churches, and the frustrations of city streets are caught in laments, work songs and field hollers, shouting gospels and spirituals, blues and jazz. While the arrangements can be faulted for lack of subtlety...
...asked: "Who wrote that?" "I did," confessed Mitchum. "When I was 15. I was Bridgeport's answer to Nathalia Crane."* For once he was not swaggering. He once wrote an oratorio for a Jewish-refugee-benefit show produced and directed by Orson Welles. He wrote a short story, Thunder Road, and got it turned into a film co-starring his son Jim. He also composed two original songs for the picture...
This, he kept reminding himself, was his bride, an intelligent and desirable young woman, and it was time, under the thunder and rain, to be thinking of performing, that is to say consummating, that is to say. He stealthily felt his way down to find out what was his body's view of this constatation, but all was quiet there, as though he were calmly reading Jane Austen...
...Ouen, Boulogne-Billancourt and St. Denis. No soaring monuments to Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives and plies his trade...
Since Hair chooses to stand on an attitude of dissent, mainly about Viet Nam, some of the show's thunder has been stolen by the prospective initiation of peace talks. It gives the show a split personality-musically fresh but intellectually trite and topically dated...