From the opening ensemble number, in which an alarmed homeowners' chorus pleads in panic, set to a jangly tune, for the rescuing attentions of the local exterminator, the music, by Laurence O'Keefe and the lyrics, by Nell Benjamin, evoke both an affection for and an arch amusement with out-of-it, mundane Midwestern-ness.
The standouts are the complexly balanced, calligraphic "Ninth Street" (1951), made just before Kline's beams straightened out, and "Heaume" of 1958, a skewed, four-square hulk that evokes the artist's affection for all things railroad.
Although he confesses to a powerful affection for writing pastiche — songs that intentionally evoke previous styles of music — Mr. Sondheim's later works more potently illustrate the continual reach of his musical and lyrical imagination.
It will evoke either "awww's" or "ick's," depending on your affection for its whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance (2 00).
A comedy comprising almost a dozen two-character vignettes exploring the sudden thunderclap of love and the scorched earth that sometimes follows, John Cariani's play will evoke either awww's or ick's, depending on your affection for its whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance.
Desplechin's affection for open spaces and the mountains, the conventional settings of classic Westerns — joined with his attention to their forgotten people — evokes an inside-out modern Western.
His affection for Shostakovich was symbiotic.
She has a particular affection for puns.
They had some affection for me.
They also share an affection for marijuana.
"Is there personal affection for him?
