In an era of prog rock, singer-songwriters and concept albums, Horses became a clarion call for primitive guitar rockers everywhere and its opener Gloria rang like a demand to storm the barricades of a soporific music scene.
It begins, "Gloria Etchison was beautiful.
Susanne Mentzer tried hard to rescue the Gloria from its doldrums and sang affectingly in the Stabat Mater.
The Miserere that briefly robs the Gloria of its might would have been more anguished and effective if taken a fraction slower; the Sanctus was graceful rather than numinous.
That said, "Gloria" is on its own terms a good show, and an apt counterweight to the one on Long Island.
Clarity is not everything in "Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua," with its profusion of quiet, overlapping lines of free chant representing the awesome fullness of God's glory in heaven and on earth, but you have to be able to pick out at least a few consonants and syllables.
GLORIA STEINEM Did Gloria Steinem ever think of running for office?
Above the clock is Father Time and below it the inscription Sic transit gloria mundi.
Sic transit gloria ReprintsAlthough Boom will not reveal its financial results, analysts reckon it has attracted only about 15,000 clients so far, out of 840,000 Hong Kong retail investors.
From there, they basically grasped at straws to fill out a list, co-opting mainstream opinion (Josef Stalin was bad! The Berlin Wall sucked!) as exclusively conservative and recasting liberal sentiment ("Gloria", "I Fought The Law") as its opposite, after repeated blows to the head.
