From: "John Beamish" 

What's gripping -- to me, at least -- is the delivery: non-stop, near
tongue-twisting, stacatto rattling of one element after another.  The
lyrics?  Well, so many had a hand in putting them together!

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:21:34 -0500, John Beckett
 wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news::
>> "Elements" made it into the final production and got a
prolonged burst
>> of
>> applause at the end!
>
> It's hard to know what's so gripping about "Elements", but
I've seen that
> Flash quite a few times and it is still sensational to me.
>
> Re Tom Lehrer: You know he is exceptionally exceptional from the fact
> that
> most of his songs still resonate today.
>
> John
>

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