"It created a culture of things that didn't quite fit, didn't quite suit and didn't quite serve," he says.
The music had a jaunty drive that didn't quite serve the genre, and there was little about the choral writing that could be called experimental.
The lectures do not quite serve as a painless general summation of his thought: "I do not think I will give you my teaching in the form of a pill," he warns.
Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse.
These videos don't quite serve the utilitarian function that Clark had put forth — that of saving her time and energy by furnishing her interrogators with workable answers — but they do convey a sensibility that suits the brand: cheeky, sexy, a little Dada.
As the play-by-play announcers, reduced to two for storytelling's sake, Christopher McDonald mouths Mel Allen's signature line, "How about that!," and Joe Grifasi repeats Phil Rizzuto's "Holy cow!" But they never quite serve the story as the Greek chorus the script seems to intend.
